@conference {18406,
	title = {On the nature of bias and defects in the software specification process},
	booktitle = {Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1992. COMPSAC {\textquoteright}92. Proceedings., Sixteenth Annual International},
	year = {1992},
	month = {1992/09//},
	pages = {17 - 24},
	abstract = {Implementation bias in a specification is an arbitrary constraint in the solution space. The authors describe the problem of bias and then present a model of the specification and design processes describing individual subprocesses in terms of precision/detail programs, and a model of bias in multi-attribute software specifications. While studying how bias is introduced into a specification it was realized that software defects and bias are dual problems of a single phenomenon. This has been used to explain the large proportion of faults found during the coding phase at the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center},
	keywords = {Center;NASA;Software, defects;software, engineering, Flight, Goddard, Laboratory;bias;coding, phase;design, processes;multiattribute, reliability;, reliability;formal, software, space, specification;software},
	doi = {10.1109/CMPSAC.1992.217609},
	author = {Straub,P. and Zelkowitz, Marvin V}
}
