Kiyoshi Honda, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Hironori Washizaki and Yoshiaki Fukazawa, “Case Study: Project Management Using Cross Project Software Reliability Growth Model Considering System Scale,” 27th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2016), Industry Track, Ottawa, Canada 23-27 October 2016. (to appear)(CORE Rank A)

We propose a method to compare software products developed by the same company in the same domain. Our method, which measures the time series of the number of detected faults, employs software reliability growth models (SRGMs). SRGMs describe the relations between faults and the time necessary to detect them. Herein our method is extended to classify past projects for comparison to current projects to help managers and developers decide when to end the test phases or release a project. Past projects are classified by three parameters: lines of code, number of test cases, and test density. Then SRGM is applied. Our extended method is applied to the datasets for nine projects developed by Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Classification by test density produces the best results.