System and method of determining software maturity using...

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2006-10-04

2009-12-29

Dam, Tuan Q (Department: 2192)

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software program development tool

Testing or debugging

C717S131000, C706S021000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07640537

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for determining software maturity is disclosed. The method may include building an uncensored belief distribution from a set of observed test data, building a belief distribution based on one or more improvement factors, convoluting the uncensored belief distribution with the belief distribution on improvement factors to form a joined-censored-belief distribution, and translating the joint belief distribution into an a priori belief distribution to assess a level of software maturity.

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