International Journal of Reliability and Applications

The Korean Reliability Society (한국신뢰성학회)
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A software reliability model with a Burr Type III fault detection rate function

  • Song, Kwang Yoon (Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Chosun University) ;
  • Chang, In Hong (Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Chosun University) ;
  • Choi, Min Su (Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Chosun University)
  • Received : 2016.10.21
  • Accepted : 2016.12.27
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

We are enjoying a very comfortable life thanks to modern civilization, however, comfort is not guaranteed to us. Development of software system is a difficult and complex process. Therefore, the main focus of software development is on improving the reliability and stability of a software system. We have become aware of the importance of developing software reliability models and have begun to develop software reliability models. NHPP software reliability models have been developed through the fault intensity rate function and the mean value functions within a controlled testing environment to estimate reliability metrics such as the number of residual faults, failure rate, and reliability of the software. In this paper, we present a new NHPP software reliability model with Burr Type III fault detection rate, and present the goodness-of-fit of the fault detection rate software reliability model and other NHPP models based on two datasets of software testing data. The results show that the proposed model fits significantly better than other NHPP software reliability models.

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