Towards modeling guidelines for capturing the cost of improving software product quality in release planning

Richard Berntsson Svensson; Björn Regnell; Aybuke Aurum

doi:10.1145/1961258.1961263

Towards modeling guidelines for capturing the cost of improving software product quality in release planning

Richard Berntsson Svensson, Björn Regnell, Aybuke Aurum

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Abstract

Quality requirements complement functional requirements with information on the target quality levels of software functions or emergent system quality aspects. In release planning the allocation of development effort in further investments into product enhancements, new or enhanced functions are competing with quality improvements for limited resources. When setting balanced quality targets for development of coming releases, the estimated costs of improved software quality is needed as a basis for decisions. In this paper, we present initial results from an industrial evaluation of modeling guidelines for the Cost View in the QUality PERformance (QUPER) model. The initial results indicate the feasibility of the proposed modeling approach to cost estimation of quality requirements in QUPER, but further validation is needed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PROFES '10 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	20-23
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0281-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1961258.1961263
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement - Limerick, Ireland Duration: 2010 Jun 21 → …

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Conference	11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Limerick
Period	2010/06/21 → …

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Software Engineering

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Software Engineering
Software development process management

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Åkesson, J., Magnusson, B., Svensson Fors, D., Magnusson, E., Hedin, G., Kuchcinski, K., Andersson, P., Nugues, P., Robertz, S., Ekman, T., Loconsole, A., Orucevic-Alagic, A., Johnsson, B. A., Pfahl, D., Bjarnason, E., Söderberg, E., Sabaliauskaité, G., Jonsson, H., Janneck, J., Wnuk, K., Borg, M., Skoglund, M., Sulaman, S. M., Minör, S., Sandholm, T., Alce, G., Wallergård, M., Zhang, C., Barney, S., Martinsen, J. K., Grahn, H., Jalali, S., Ardö, A., Engström, E., Berntsson Svensson, R., Regnell, B., Runeson, P., Wohlin, C., Höst, M. & Wisbrant, J.
2008/09/30 → 2018/12/31
Project: Research

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Berntsson Svensson, R, Regnell, B & Aurum, A 2010, Towards modeling guidelines for capturing the cost of improving software product quality in release planning. in PROFES '10 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 20-23, 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement, Limerick, Ireland, 2010/06/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/1961258.1961263

Towards modeling guidelines for capturing the cost of improving software product quality in release planning. / Berntsson Svensson, Richard; Regnell, Björn; Aurum, Aybuke.

PROFES '10 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010. p. 20-23.

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Towards modeling guidelines for capturing the cost of improving software product quality in release planning

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