Is software quality visible in the code
- Already Purchased? View Article
- Subscription Options Learn More
Finding and fixing software code defects is crucial to product quality. It also, however, often proves difficult and time-consuming, especially late in the development cycle. While some believe that code analysis provides a simple way to detect quality defects, the authors argue otherwise. To prove their point, they analyzed data from error reports, and their results show that code analysis detects only a small percentage of meaningful defects
Published in:
Software, IEEE
(Volume:15
,
Issue:
4
)
Date of Publication: Jul/Aug 1998