The links between human error diversity and software diversity: Implications for fault diversity seeking

Huang, Fuqun; Liu, Bin; Song, You; Keyal, Shreya

doi:10.1016/j.scico.2014.03.004

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“…A sample of the error modes are describes in Table 1. These error modes were observed to manifest themselves in software development contexts in the author's previous experimental studies [5,7,13] or industrial historical data [8]. More software defects examples associated with these human error modes can be found in [18].…”

Section: Human Error Modesmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Human cognition plays a central role in software development even if in the modern large projects [4][5][6][7]. A previous analysis on a large set of industrial data shows that eighty seven percent of the severe residual defects are caused by individual cognitive failures independent of process consistency [8].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, there is few study focusing on identifying factors that inluence human errors in programming. One of Huang's recent experimental studies was devoted to comparing the efects of various human factors on fault introduction rate [7]. Results show that a few dimensions of programmers' cognitive styles and personality traits are related to fault introduction rate [7] as signiicantly as the conventional program metrics [10].…”

Section: Human Error Mechanisms Underlying Software Faultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Huang [4] has been devoted to irst understanding why, how and under what circumstances programmers tend to introduce the same faults, and then to seeking a scientiic way to achieve fault diversity and enhance software systems' fault tolerant capability [4]. Huang's theory [7] relates the likelihood of identical faults to the "performance level" of the activity required from the programmers. Remarkably, the most frequent coincident fault does not occur at diicult task points that involve knowledge-based performance, but rather at an easy task point that involves rule-based performance [7].…”

Section: Software Fault Tolerance Based On Human Error Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Huang's theory [7] relates the likelihood of identical faults to the "performance level" of the activity required from the programmers. Remarkably, the most frequent coincident fault does not occur at diicult task points that involve knowledge-based performance, but rather at an easy task point that involves rule-based performance [7].…”

Section: Software Fault Tolerance Based On Human Error Mechanismsmentioning

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Human Error Analysis in Software Engineering

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2017

Theory and Application on Cognitive Factors and Risk Management - New Trends and Procedures

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As the primary cause of software defects, human error is the key to understanding, detecting and preventing software defects. This chapter irst reviews the state of art of an emerging area: software fault defense based on human error mechanisms. Then, an approach for human error analysis (HEA) is proposed. HEA consists of two important components: human error modes (HEM) and an undated version of causal mechanism graphs (CMGs). Human error modes are the general erroneous paterns that humans tend to behave in a variety of activities. Causal mechanism graph provides a way to extract the error-prone contexts in software development, and link the contexts to general human error modes. HEA can be used at various phases of software development, for both defect detection and prevention purposes. An application case is provided to demonstrate how to use HEA.

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The impact of software process consistency on residual defects

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Residual defects at the time of delivery are an important concern for safety critical software systems. Suppliers and customers are urged to get evidence for what they can do to reduce residual defects. Thus, it is meaningful to learn from historical data concerning the kinds of defects that have escaped from the existing quality assurance approaches and the factors that lead to the residual defects. A total of 3747 defects from 70 software systems developed by 29 Chinese aviation organizations were collected from acceptance tests during the last 5 years. For all these organizations, 38 domain experts from the industry assessed the process consistency to the standard built in the framework of Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Results demonstrate that the process improvement in the range of high consistency is effective in reducing total defects, as well as the minor and severe defects. The high consistency adoption of the practices in CMM Level 1 to Level 3 is more effective in reducing minor defects than severe defects. Causal analysis was performed to investigate the underlying mechanisms. Results reveal that individual cognitive failures cause 87% of severe defects. More approaches to help software developers manage their interior cognitive process are needed for improving software quality in the future. Figure 6. The effect of process consistency on the density of total defects. 638 FUQUN HUANG ET AL.

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Human Aspects in Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study

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Gasca‐Hurtado

2022

Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing

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The links between human error diversity and software diversity: Implications for fault diversity seeking

Cited by 30 publications

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Human Error Analysis in Software Engineering

Human Error Analysis in Software Engineering

The impact of software process consistency on residual defects

Human Aspects in Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study

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