An Overview of Software Defect Density: A Scoping Study IEEE Conference Publication

Defect density is considered one of the most efficient testing techniques in the overall process of the software development process. While this practice is considered unnecessary by some software engineers, but it is still revered as the best way to identify bugs and errors in software. Defect density is numerical data that determines the number of defects detected in software or component during a specific development period. In order to reduce the defect density the epitaxial layers must have a lattice constant that is well matched to that of the underlying substrate material. However, sapphire is electrically insulating, is not a good heat conductor and is expensive to produce. Requirements for substrate materials place constraints on LED design and cost.

Software is tested based on its quality, scalability, features, security, and performance, including other essential elements. However, developers must ensure they are taken care of before launching it to the end-users. This is because fixing an error at an early stage will cost significantly less than rectifying it at a later stage. Below relevant defect densities, many materials at the microstructural level have properties 10–100 times better than their bulk counterparts.

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They should also use a reliable and standardized tool or system for defect tracking and management. Second, they should complement defect density with other metrics and indicators that capture different aspects of software quality, such as defect severity, defect resolution time, test coverage, user satisfaction, or business value. Third, they should analyze and interpret defect density in context, taking into account factors such as the software size, scope, complexity, type, and stage of development. They should also use defect density to identify root causes and improvement opportunities, rather than as a sole measure of success or failure. Nowadays, quality is the driving force behind the popularity as well as the success of a software product, which has drastically increased the requirement to take effective measures for quality assurance.

This study proposes a clustering method, which requires only a single parameter to be specified, yet it is shown to be as effective as the SCM. Due to having only a single parameter, using the proposed clustering method is shown to be orders of magnitudes more efficient than using SCM. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated on phase space prediction of three univariate time series and prediction of two multivariate data sets.

What is Defect Density?

This much higher defect density is most likely linked to substrate defects, metallic contaminations and particles. One goal of this chapter was to highlight that despite of an initially higher electrical defect density, it is possible to get SiC MOSFETs down to the same low ppm rate as Si MOSFETs or IGBTs by applying smart screening measures. The enabler for efficient gate oxide screening is a much thicker bulk oxide than what is typically needed to fulfill intrinsic lifetime targets. The thicker oxide allows for sufficiently accelerated burn-in which can be applied as a part of the standard wafer test. In this way the extrinsic reliability thread can be transferred to yield loss.

Lastly, QA engineers must conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions for the defects found to learn from them. Defect density is an important QA indicator that can measure the quality of software products; however, it is not sufficient on its own. By understanding its benefits and challenges and following best practices and tips, QA engineers can use defect density effectively. Defect density is a common metric used by QA engineers to measure the quality of software products.

Challenges of defect density

There are allowable local and global variations in the patterns on the surface due to process variables that should not be flagged as defects. These variations can be, for example, larger than the one tenth ground rules limit. Pattern defect inspection systems need to be locally adaptive to ignore anomalies typical of process variation.

A type of performance measurement, Key Performance Indicators or KPIs, are used by organizations as well as testers to get data that can be measured. KPIs are the detailed specifications that are measured and analyzed by the software testing team to ensure the compliance of the process with the objectives of the business. Moreover, they help the team take any necessary steps, in case the performance of the product does not meet the defined objectives. Considerable improvements in substrate quality and electrical defect density during the last decade have been the enabler for the recent successful commercialization of SiC MOSFETs by several manufacturers. In the field of gate oxide reliability there is a lot of know-how available from Si which can be utilized, however, there are also some SiC specific features which need to be considered. The most important discrepancy between SiC and Si MOSFETs is the 3–4 orders of magnitude higher defect density of SiC MOS structures at the end of the process.

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Parameters such as strength, piezoelectricity, fatigue strength, and many others exhibit this behavior. Outside the microworld, however, efforts to exploit these properties directly have been stymied by the challenges of identifying defect-free particles and then combining them in sufficient numbers to be useful. Recently, progress has been made in microrobotics that may change the practicality of addressing these large-number problems. Multiple systems of more than 1000 small robots have been demonstrated, and processes for testing, microassembly, and joining have been developed. This chapter discusses challenges and opportunities in the exciting new field of microrobotic additive manufacturing. In addition to building below defect densities, we also discuss closely related heterogeneous microassembly, potentially enabling complex systems, including other robots, to be built with optimized geometric and material performance.

• Defect metric will suggest the poor quality which would be a definite false alarm.
• Although one can use the defect-based technique at any level of testing, most testers preferred it during systems testing.
• Since a lower size of data set is generated as mentioned criteria are observed, it avoids a good generalization for models.
• This much higher defect density is most likely linked to substrate defects, metallic contaminations and particles.
• The model seems to represent an approximation to a more complex situation that has yet to be fully described.

Conversely, a software product may have a high defect density, but most of the defects may be minor or cosmetic. The Defect density is calculated software defect density by dividing total faults by software size. The idea is to find problems that are genuinely important, not just any defects.

Defect severity

These metrics should never be used to attribute blame, but used as a learning tool. Although all dopants induce defects, not all cases show the square root dependence on doping level. Further, the dependence of the defect density on the gas-phase or solid-phase composition is complicated, particularly for the case of arsenic doping. The model seems to represent an approximation to a more complex situation that has yet to be fully described.

The data sets of software projects were selected from the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) Release 2018. The selection criteria were based on attributes such as type of development, development platform, and programming language generation as suggested by the ISBSG. Since a lower size of data set is generated as mentioned criteria are observed, it avoids a good generalization for models. Therefore, in this study, a statistical analysis of data sets was performed with the objective of knowing if they could be pooled instead of using them as separated data sets. Results showed that there was no difference among the DD of new projects nor among the DD of enhancement projects, but there was a difference between the DD of new and enhancement projects.

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A simple clustering method is proposed for extracting representative subsets from lengthy data sets. The main purpose of the extracted subset of data is to use it to build prediction models (of the form of approximating functional relationships) instead of using the entire large data set. Such smaller subsets of data are often required in exploratory analysis stages of studies that involve resource consuming investigations. A few recent studies have used a subtractive clustering method (SCM) for such data extraction, in the absence of clustering methods for function approximation.