A Few Key Findings From the Industry Benchmark on Software Defects
In a world full of opinions, we have the facts. Identify the overlooked, wasteful, and high ROI practices in your software development lifecycle.
An integrated systems engineering team beats compliance-driven and siloed engineering.
The results show that an integrated systems engineering team is more effective than compliance-driven engineering or engineering conducted in silos. See our full benchmarking study for 600+ more trends.
Latest statistics from our reliable software industry studies show just how large the gap is between the winning approach and the popular alternatives.
Systems engineering driven beats "shall" compliance driven 9:1 and silo engineering 35:1
Process can be overkill
Systems engineering beats shall statement compliance 9:1 and no design 50:1
The facts you need to ship with minimal warranty cost and recalls
In a world full of opinions, we have the facts you need to develop software with minimal warranty cost and recalls while actually improving on-time delivery. The benchmarking study also shows which popular development factors are wasteful or overkill, as well as the overlooked practices that add value.
Aerospace & defense
Where even a single failure can be critical.
Healthcare & medical devices
Where consistent performance is directly tied to patient safety.
Manufacturing & industrial systems
Where downtime quickly becomes expensive.
Energy & infrastructure
Where reliability keeps essential services running.
Software & technology
Where uptime and stability are everything.
From benchmark to machine learning model
Machine learning models trained on 30+ years of outcomes
From this massive database of practices and defect data, machine learning models evolved to predict the quantity and types of defects.
Requs AI Predict and Requs AI Edge Case — tools built directly from this benchmarking data.
A published, industry-adopted defect taxonomy
This benchmarking study also led to the publication of the Common Defect Enumeration (CDE).
The benchmarking data gives you the tools to reduce failures, improve system design and maintenance, and build more reliable operations over time.
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