The Design for Trustworthy Software Compilation Taguchi Methods and Optimization for Robust Software

Exercises

Internet Exercises

1. Find Internet sites that deal with the quality loss function. Now limit the results to sites that deal with it in a software product context.
2. Find Internet sites that refer to the Taguchi seven-step method.

Review Questions

1. Describe the quality loss function and its application.
2. Review and explain the seven steps in a Taguchi analysis.
3. Which steps of this analysis may be iterated to gain a design optimization?
4. What is the contribution of “orthogonality” in Taguchi’s use of orthogonal arrays?
5. Review the statistical terms used in this article, and try to come to an intuitive understanding of them.

Discussion Questions

1. Why is the choice of a signal-to-noise ratio formula special for each application of ...