Patent Document ID: 20140317591
Application ID: 14256473
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: generating, by a computer processor, a plurality of risk factor questions associated with a software development process of a software program during a software development stage in which the software program is being created or will be created, a risk factor question requesting information utilized to assess software development risk associated with a particular software development activity; receiving, by the computer processor, a plurality of risk factor responses associated with the software development process of the software program, a risk factor response of the plurality of risk factor responses being a response to the risk factor question, a risk factor being associated with the risk factor response and reflecting a quantitative software development risk associated with the software development process; respectively associating, by the computer processor, a plurality of risk factors with a plurality of risk factor models and a plurality of risk factor weightings, the plurality of risk factors including the risk factor, a risk factor model of the plurality of risk factor models reflecting a mathematical relationship between the risk factor and a risk factor weighting; and totaling, by the computer processor, the plurality of risk factors in combination with their respective association of the plurality of risk factor models and the plurality of risk factor weightings to generate a predicted number of expected software development defects associated with continued development of the software program.