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Defining defects, errors, and service degradations

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Gertrude Neuman LevineAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 34, Issue 2

Pages 1 - 14

https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507205

Published: 28 February 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The study of defects is a principal topic of software systems, af-fecting all phases of a system's lifecycle. Defects are the cause of errors and service degradations. Unresolved errors cause failures. If defects cannot be prevented effectively, then error control me-chanisms must be evaluated.

We introduce a model to distinguish between defects, errors, and service degradations. A two-dimensional classification scheme is developed for defects, defined by the types of process interaction and software corruption that are involved. A third dimension is added to this taxonomy for defects that cause service degradation, based on the deviations in service quality that are tolerated. We investigate the role of service degradation in error prevention.

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Levine G(2013)Computer security with service degradationsACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2532780.253281038:6(1-7)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2013
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Levine G(2012)Priority inversion with fungible resourcesACM SIGAda Ada Letters10.1145/2148436.214843831:2(9-14)Online publication date: 22-Feb-2012
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Index Terms

Defining defects, errors, and service degradations
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 34, Issue 2

March 2009

140 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1507195

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