DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF SFMEA MODEL TO SOFTWARE TESTING ENVIRONMENT
R. Dillibabu, A. Lakshmi Sangeetha, L. Sudha · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT · 2013
In software industry, the concept of quality has become a significant aspect and is expressed and defined in many different ways.Quality assurance, and in particular software testing and verification, are areas that yet have much to offer to the industry.This paper emphasizes the importance of a quality process and also discusses about the ways in which it could be achieved through offline software quality techniques in particular SFMEA Model.Software FMEA determines the software failure modes that are likely to cause top level failure events.Software FMEAs are useful when designing and testing the error handling part of the software process.It has to be found that there is significant improvement in quality in terms of reduced RPN values.A detailed literature was collected for the SFMEA model.The application of these SFMEA model for the software development is very much limited.Only few papers were highlighted the application of these model in software industry.The objectives can be achieved by developing the SFMEA model for the software development of three banking projects.The construction of the SFMEA model was compiled for the software development.The causes and effects for the failures were analyzed and validated using the SFMEA model.