Model based approach to study Defect Dependency in Large Scale Integrated Software Products
This addresses the challenge of tracking and preventing critical defects in integrated software suites for large organizations, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing product engineering methods.
The paper tackles the problem of unidentified defects in large-scale integrated software products by presenting a model-based approach to study defect dependencies, which was validated on pilot industry projects.
Large organizations have diverse product offerings to meet various business needs. To increase revenue, its common these days to offer software products as integrated product suite(s) rather than individual products. Creating and maintaining high quality software products within the integrated product suite requires rigorous product engineering methods. The sheer size of products and dependencies involved tend to raise unidentified defects that may become critical post product upgrades or after every release cycle. It is difficult to track such defects and its widespread across underlying sub-products. In this paper, we present a model based approach to study the defect dependency in large scale integrated software products to avoid surprise defects after product release. To validate the approach, we have applied it on some pilot projects in industry.