WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research
Print ISSN: 1991-8755, E-ISSN: 2415-1521
Volume 13, 2025
The Problem of Stopping Software Tests and the Interpretation of Software Programs
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Abstract: We conducted empirical research on the defects found by customers when using six large software programs. The Wakeby (WAK) and Kumaraswamy (KUM) functions, recently discovered by statisticians, proved to be the best in terms of fitting the six time-series of defects. Two analytical reports on this empirical research have already been published; we do not repeat the details of the outcomes here, but instead illustrate the consequences deriving from the published outcomes. The abstract and applied properties of WAK and KUM provide new answers to the following managerial and theoretical problems.
- The first problem concerns managers who make the decision to stop software testing. The literature proposes various directional criteria which leave margins for subjectivity and incertitude. WAK and KUM provide a mathematical answer to the problem of terminating a software test.
- Most researchers have assigned software defects to the personal inabilities of developers, and the descriptions of software programs usually neglect the objective mechanisms for errors. Based on WAK and KUM, this paper suggests a territory model that illustrates the behavior of a software program with erroneous instructions.
This paper aims to raise a discussion of the original ideas generated by WAK and KUM. These ideas need to be further verified, and in its current form, this work can therefore be considered a position paper.
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Keywords: Software defects, Management of software test, Modelling software programs execution, Wakeby and Kumaraswamy functions
Pages: 47-57