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Analysis Of Human Affect And Bug Patterns To Improve Software Quality And Security, Md Rakibul Islam May 2020

Analysis Of Human Affect And Bug Patterns To Improve Software Quality And Security, Md Rakibul Islam

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The impact of software is ever increasing as more and more systems are being software operated. Despite the usefulness of software, many instances software failures have been causing tremendous losses in lives and dollars. Software failures take place because of bugs (i.e., faults) in the software systems. These bugs cause the program to malfunction or crash and expose security vulnerabilities exploitable by malicious hackers.

Studies confirm that software defects and vulnerabilities appear in source code largely due to the human mistakes and errors of the developers. Human performance is impacted by the underlying development process and human affects, such as …