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Understanding Interactions Among Software Development Attributes and Release Planning Problem Through ISM and MAUT

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Satisfaction expected from the software product is determined by role of individual attributes in the development process and release decisions. This chapter proposes a study to analyse the relationship among various attributes of the software development process and its importance form customer’s point of view. The attributes were carefully chosen based on the industry practices, theory and literature. Further the attributes were compared to see which attributes is affected/influenced by which attribute. A hierarchical model that highlights the importance of attributes at various levels along with their interrelationships was developed through Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM). The results show that budget, reliability, release time and post-release support are highly affected attributes. Then an optimal release problem with multiple objectives is developed incorporating the most affected attributes and solved using Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT). Here developer aims to optimize the development cost i.e. budget and the reliability under fixed availability of budget considering that the developer provides warranty benefits to the customers. Through this chapter we are able to identify the relations among software attributes and role of most influenced attributes in release planning. The detailed methodology of the proposed study has been demonstrated through an empirical example.

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  1. Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Vibha Verma & Anu G. Aggarwal

  2. School of Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Hoang Pham

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    Anu G. Aggarwal

  2. Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Stds, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Abhishek Tandon

  3. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA

    Hoang Pham

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Verma, V., Aggarwal, A.G., Pham, H. (2022). Understanding Interactions Among Software Development Attributes and Release Planning Problem Through ISM and MAUT. In: Aggarwal, A.G., Tandon, A., Pham, H. (eds) Optimization Models in Software Reliability. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78919-0_6

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