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Track 1 Session 4
2:20 to 3:20 p.m. Tuesday June 17, 2008
Practical Software Failure Analysis
In order to improve the reliability
of their software, organizations can use software failure analysis
and root cause analysis to determine the weaknesses of their
development processes and reduce their defect density. The findings
of failure and root cause analysis can be shared amongst all
development teams through best practices documents or design
guidelines, and used to drive process improvements. In addition, the
results of failure analysis should be incorporated in the
development training and design processes.
A set of steps are described in this presentation, which focuses on the best ways to utilize the failure and root cause
analysis data and methodologies.
Key Words: Failure Analysis,
SW FMEA, Causal Analysis, Code Review, Software Reliability, Defect
Phase Containment
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