Category: faults
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Impact of input distribution on faults experienced
The impact of user input variability on number of reported faults is an important issue that is rarely researched. Appropriate user input is one of the three events that needs to occur for a software system to experience a fault. Program fault reports are caused by its users. I am not aware of any published…
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One code path dominates method execution
A recurring claim is that most reported faults are the result of coding mistakes in a small percentage of a program’s source code, with the 80/20 ‘rule’ being cited for social confirmation. I think there is something to this claim, but that the percentages are not so extreme. A previous post pointed out that reported…
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Program fault reports are caused by its users
Faults are generated by users of the software; no users, no fault reports. Fault reports will be generated for software that is free of coding mistakes; one study found that 42.6% of fault reports were misclassified as either requests for an enhancement, changes to documentation, or a refactoring request, or not requiring changes to the…