Improving reliability quantification and magnitude through development process mutations for iteratively developed software

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When computer software products are being developed, the process managers and software designers routinely make decisions that trade-off development budget, software features, and software quality. These decisions ultimately impact tremendously on the quality of the software, the company reputation and its profitability. We will develop procedures and guidelines that will help managers and developers in their decision-making process, by generating ongoing statistical data that can provide them with information to help them make these trade-offs in a systematic fashion, and to aid in producing software with measured, desirable quality versus cost. To develop these guidelines and procedures we will use some formal, mathematical models and proofs of concept. We will also obtain some results using experimental evidence. Other results will be extrapolated from data we have accumulated from previous real-world projects. Feedback from our preliminary work (from individuals, both academic and industrially-based, contacting us after reading our publications) indicates our work is significant and desirable to both business and development, and we will continue to work on expansion of our results and reports, with graduate student assistance.