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| Takeshi Nakajo, Hitoshi Kume, "A Case History Analysis of Software Error Cause-Effect Relationships," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 830-838, August, 1991. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/32.83917, author = {Takeshi Nakajo and Hitoshi Kume}, title = {A Case History Analysis of Software Error Cause-Effect Relationships}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, volume = {17}, number = {8}, issn = {0098-5589}, year = {1991}, pages = {830-838}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/32.83917}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering TI - A Case History Analysis of Software Error Cause-Effect Relationships IS - 8 SN - 0098-5589 SP830 EP838 EPD - 830-838 A1 - Takeshi Nakajo, A1 - Hitoshi Kume, PY - 1991 KW - Software development KW - cause-effect relationships KW - case-based error analysis KW - program faults KW - human errors KW - process flaws KW - structured analysis and structured design KW - Fault Tree Analysis. VL - 17 JA - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ER - | |||
Software errors have been studied from various perspectives; however, most investigations have been limited to an individual section or a partial path of the cause-effect relationships of these errors. The bresent study analyzes approximately 700 errors in 4 commercial measuring-control software products, and then identifies the cause-effect relationships of errors occurring during software development. The analysis method used was: (i) defining appropriate observation points along the path leading from cause to effect of a software error, followed by gathering the corresponding data by analyzing each error using Fault Tree Analysis, and (ii) categorizing each observation point?s data, and then summarizing the relationships between two adjoining points using a cross-indexing table. This paper presents four major cause-effect relationships and discusses the effects of the Structured Analysis and Structured Design methods on these relationships.