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Repetitive decomposing of the objective concept hierarchically, developed for design involves a human intentional activity, ranging from management to physical works. This model proved the empirical rules in Industrial Engineering. In addition to these “design” process characteristics, the “test” process is found to be a defect attenuating process with the attenuation rate of its error rate of the second kind. As these are applicable to any software process, they are very useful.