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

当开发计算机软件产品时，过程管理者和软件设计者通常会在开发预算、软件功能和软件质量之间进行权衡。 这些决定最终会对软件的质量、公司的声誉和盈利能力产生巨大的影响。我们将制定程序和指导方针，通过生成持续的统计数据，帮助管理人员和开发人员进行决策过程，这些统计数据可以为他们提供信息，帮助他们以系统的方式进行权衡，并帮助生产具有可衡量的，理想的质量与成本的软件。为了制定这些准则和程序，我们将使用一些正式的数学模型和概念证明。我们还将通过实验证据获得一些结果。其他结果将根据我们从以前的实际项目中积累的数据进行推断。从我们的初步工作（从个人，学术和工业为基础，阅读我们的出版物后与我们联系）的反馈表明，我们的工作是重要的和可取的业务和发展，我们将继续努力扩大我们的结果和报告，与研究生的援助。

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.