How to Explain Empirical Distribution of Software Defects by Severity

Authors

Francisco Zapata, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

3-2018

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-18-22

Abstract

In the last decades, several tools have appeared that, given a software package, mark possible defects of different potential severity. Our empirical analysis has shown that in most situations, we observe the same distribution or software defects by severity. In this paper, we present this empirical distribution, and we use interval-related ideas to provide an explanation for this empirical distribution.