Relating Code Faults to Human Developer Characteristics
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چکیده
In efforts to reduce the number of faults in software, there has been much focus on technical approaches, such as fault prediction schemes. These approaches have now reached a ceiling in their efficacy and 20% of faults cannot be recalled even with the best prediction techniques currently available. In the end, faults in software are caused by human software developers; in most cases, this is either because requirements have been misunderstood or because of human error in the implementation, i.e. a planned sequence of activities fails to achieve its intended outcome. Our interest is in trying to identify what kinds of faults are generated by what kinds of individuals. We believe that there is potential to leverage human error theory and research into human characteristics of software developers in achieve this and hence be able to reduce the software faults introduced into code.
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