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Software Fault Detection and Removal Effort-based Reliability Estimation Model  

Kang, Myung-Muk (KAIST 전산학과)
Gu, Tae-Wan (KAIST 정보전자연구소)
Baik, Jong-Moon (KAIST 전산학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.37, no.7, 2010 , pp. 536-547 More about this Journal
Abstract
Relative importance and complexity of recent software is getting increased because the software is needed to provide considerable amount of functions and high performance. Therefore, developing reliable software is importantly issued. In order to develop reliable software, it is necessary to manage software reliability at the early phases, but most reliability estimation models are used at system or operational test phases. In order to develop highly reliable software, it is necessary to manage software reliability at the early test phases based on characteristic of the phases that is developers and testers are not separated and developers perform test and debug activities together. Therefore, a new reliability estimation model considering test and debug time together is necessarily needed. In this paper, we propose a new reliability estimation model to manage reliability of individual units from the early test phases and in order to show how to fit the model to actual data and usefulness, we collected industrial data and used it for the experiment.
Keywords
Software Reliability; Software Reliability Model; Exponential Model; Software Reliability Tool(SRTpro);
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