On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:01:47AM -0400, Paul Luo Li wrote: > Thank you very much for the response. > > By "field defect" I mean a PR in the Bug Tracking system of the Class > sw-bug. > > I was wondering if you think predictions at the time of release of the > number of field defects in each month after release can help: > -allocate resources, such as having enough people available to fix problems > -adjust the deployment date, like pushing back the release, or > -identify possible ways of improving the process, assuming that the > predictions are made using software metrics, such as the number of changes > to the code
You might want to check out Michael Lyu's "Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering" http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~lyu/book/reliability/ (You can now download all 800+ pages in pdf.) Regards, Andrew Dalgleish
