Researchers look to predict software flaws

Researchers look to predict software flaws
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-07-07

Want to know how many flaws will be in the next version of a software product? Using historical data, researchers at Colorado State University are attempting to build models that predict the number of flaws in a particular operating system or application.

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Cure and kind of interesting, but seriously, erm, flawed... 2006-07-14
Roger

This is interesting work, but trying to fit a logistic curve to the data essentially assumes that the interval between finding each flaw is normally distributed. That seems reasonable enough for a 0-th order approximation but there are a host of reasons why it could be a long way out. This is easily...

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