PROPOSED CAUSATIVE SOFTWARE ERROR CLASSIFICATION SCHEME.

Various tools, techniques, and methodologies have been developed by software engineers over the last 15 years. A goal of many of these approaches is to increase product reliability and reduce its cost by decreasing the number of severity of errors introduced by the software development process. The collection of software error data would appear to be a natural means for validation of these software engineering techniques. Yet, current software error collection efforts have had limited success in this area. A new causative software error classification scheme is introduced in this paper to refine these data collection efforts so that they can be better used in software engineering validation studies. (Author abstract. )