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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2004.11D.7.1451

A Software Reliability Growth Model Based on Gompertz Growth Curve  

Park Seok-Gyu (경상대학교 대학원 컴퓨터과학과)
Lee Sang-Un (국립 원주대학 여성교양과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.11D, no.7, 2004 , pp. 1451-1458 More about this Journal
Abstract
Current software reliability growth models based on Gompertz growth curve are all logarithmic type. Software reliability growth models based on logarithmic type Gompertz growth curve has difficulties in parameter estimation. Therefore this paper proposes a software reliability growth model based on the logistic type Gompertz growth curie. Its usefulness is empirically verified by analyzing the failure data sets obtained from 13 different software projects. The parameters of model are estimated by linear regression through variable transformation or Virene's method. The proposed model is compared with respect to the average relative prediction error criterion. Experimental results show that the pro-posed model performs better the models based on the logarithmic type Gompertz growth curve.
Keywords
소프트웨어 신뢰성 성장 모델;성장곡선;Gompertz 모델;대수형;로지스틱형;
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