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Fixing of Faults and Vulnerabilities via Single Patch

In: Quality, IT and Business Operations

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  • Yogita Kansal

    (Amity University)

  • Uday Kumar

    (Lulea University of Technology)

  • Deepak Kumar

    (Amity University)

  • P. K. Kapur

    (Amity University)

Abstract

Users’ demand of reliable software in zero time has made the software development more complex. If software industry fails in fulfilling the demands, then it may undergo big penalties and revenue loss. The developers are pressurized subject to resource constraints provided by the management. Despite such fact, software experiences various validation (testing) processes before its release; faults and vulnerabilities are still left undetected that later lack the quality of the product. The only feasible solution for resisting from the lack after the release of software is patch development. Generally, the patches developed for fixing faults and vulnerabilities are a separate process which requires extra resources that increases the total development cost and time. In this paper, we have proposed a cost framework that solves the problem of optimizing the patch release time with two different approaches. Here, the first approach has considered the release of a single patch that fixes both faults and vulnerabilities jointly. As the severity of vulnerabilities is much higher than the faults, the second approach considered the release of two patches where the first patch has fixed both faults and vulnerabilities jointly and other patch specifically fixed only vulnerabilities. The detailed illustration of the method is presented in the proposed paper. The case study is presented at the end for the validation purpose.

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  • Yogita Kansal & Uday Kumar & Deepak Kumar & P. K. Kapur, 2018. "Fixing of Faults and Vulnerabilities via Single Patch," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: P.K. Kapur & Uday Kumar & Ajit Kumar Verma (ed.), Quality, IT and Business Operations, pages 175-190, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-981-10-5577-5_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5577-5_15
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