Abstract
Generally, it is very difficult for a software manager to allocate optimally the financial budget to a software development project during the testing phase. Several optimal testing-effort allocation problems for the module testing phase have been discussed to minimize the total testing-effort expenditures, the total residual fault content in the system, the expected total software cost and so on. Most of them have not considered the variance of quality of each module after the testing. In this paper, two optimal testing-effort allocation problems are investigated to smooth the number of software faults for the system composed of some software modules after the module testing. We also provide numerical examples of the derived optimal policies.
