When to stop testing software: economic approach

When should we stop testing software and release it? Many software engineering papers attempt to answer this question—from the computer science viewpoint. However, the ultimate objective of every company—and software companies are not an exception—is to bring profit. In view of this fact, in this paper, we analyze the problem of when to stop testing from the economic viewpoint. For the simplified first-approximation model, we provide an explicit answer, and we describe how this answer can be made more accurate by using more adequate models.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Institute for Research Science and Banking Technology, Banking University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

   Nguyen Ngoc Thach

2. University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA

   Francisco Zapata & Olga Kosheleva

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All the authors contributed equally to this research paper.

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Correspondence to Olga Kosheleva.

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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Communicated by Vladik Kreinovich.

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The authors are thankful to Hung T. Nguyen and Vladik Kreinovich for encouragement and valuable suggestions.

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