A literature survey of the quality economics of defect-detection techniques

Understand

Over the last decades, a considerable amount of empirical knowledge about the efficiency of defect-detection techniques has been accumulated.

• Also a few surveys have summarised those studies with different focuses, usually for a specific type of technique.
• This work reviews the results of empirical studies and associates them with a model of software quality economics.
• This allows a better comparison of the different techniques and supports the application of the model in practice as several parameters can be approximated with typical average values.