• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2005

This paper proposes a software-reliability growth model incoporating the amount of testing effort expended during the software testing phase after developing it. The time-dependent behavior of testing effort expenditures is described by a Logistic curve. Assuming that the error detection rate to the amount of testing effort spent during the testing phase is proportional to the current error content, a software-reliability growth model is formulated by a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. Using this model the method of data analysis for software reliability measurement is developed. After defining a software reliability, This paper discusses the relations between testing time and reliability and between duration following failure fixing and reliability are studied. SRGM in several literatures has used the exponential curve, Railleigh curve or Weibull curve as an amount of testing effort during software testing phase. However, it might not be appropriate to represent the consumption curve for testing effort by one of already proposed curves in some software development environments. Therefore, this paper shows that a logistic testing-effort function can be adequately expressed as a software development/testing effort curve and that it gives a good predictive capability based on real failure data.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.92-102
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• 2001

Software testing during development and operation should exercise to obtain the desired software quality and leave failure data set. So far, many software reliability models are classified and can be used to measure a software reliability only based on its failure history But, in practice, developers or testers of software systems must decide which existing software reliability model can be fitted. In this paper, we will show that an appropriate reliability model can be selected by considering relations between characteristics of each testing environment and models' assumptions. Several methods of software testing are presented and discussed. Also, unit test, integrated test, function test and system test that are sequentially exercised during development will be introduced.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.49-57
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• 1999

It has been a critical issue to predict the safety critical software reliability in nuclear engineering area. For many years, many researches have focused on the quantification of software reliability and there have been many models developed to quantify software reliability. Most software reliability models estimate the reliability with the failure data collected during the test assuming that the test environments well represent the operation profile. User's interest is however on the operational reliability rather than on the test reliability. The experiences show that the operational reliability is higher than the test reliability. With the assumption that the difference in reliability results from the change of environment, from testing to operation, testing environment factors comprising the aging factor and the coverage factor are developed in this paper and used to predict the ultimate operational reliability with the failure data in testing phase. It is by incorporating test environments applied beyond the operational profile into testing environment factors. The application results show that the proposed method can estimate the operational reliability accurately.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권9호
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• pp.157-161
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• 2023

Reliability is one of the computable quality features of the software. To assess the reliability the software reliability growth models(SRGMS) are used at different test times based on statistical learning models. In all situations, Tradational time-based SRGMS may not be enough, and such models cannot recognize errors in small and medium sized applications.Numerous traditional reliability measures are used to test software errors during application development and testing. In the software testing and maintenance phase, however, new errors are taken into consideration in real time in order to decide the reliability estimate. In this article, we suggest using the Weibull model as a computational approach to eradicate the problem of software reliability modeling. In the suggested model, a new distribution model is suggested to improve the reliability estimation method. We compute the model developed and stabilize its efficiency with other popular software reliability growth models from the research publication. Our assessment results show that the proposed Model is worthier to S-shaped Yamada, Generalized Poisson, NHPP.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제8D권6호
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• pp.835-842
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 소프트웨어 시험 단계중에 발생되는 시험노력 소요량을 고려한 소프트웨어 신뢰도 성장 모델을 제시하여 시간종속적인 시험 노력소요량 동태를 웨이블 곡선으로 설명한다. 시험 단계중에 소요되는 시험노력의 양에 대한 결함 검출비를 현재의 결함 내용에 비례하는 것으로 가정하여 소프트웨어 신뢰도 성장 모델을 비동차 포아송 프로세스(NHPP)로 공식화하되, 이 모델을 이용하여 소프트웨어 신뢰도 척도에 대한 데이터 분석기법을 개발한다. 시험 시간의 경과와 신뢰도와의 관계, 시험비용과 신뢰도와의 관계를 연구한다. 소프트웨어의 비용을 고찰함에 있어서 조건별로 검토하여 비용이 최소로 되는 발행시각을 결정하되, 목표신뢰도를 만족시키는 최적발행시각을 정한다. 비용의 입장에서 발행 시각을 결정하는 문제와 신뢰도의 입장에서 발행 시각을 결정하는 문제를 동시에 고려하여 최적 발행시각을 결정하도록 한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2006

Many software reliability growth models(SRGM) have been proposed since the software reliability issue was raised in 1972. The technology to estimate and grow the reliability of developing S/W to target value during testing phase were developed using them. Most of these propositions assumed the S/W debugging testing efforts be constant or even did not consider them. A few papers were presented as the software reliability evaluation considering the testing effort was important afterwards. The testing effort forms which have been presented by this kind of papers were exponential, Rayleigh, Weibull, or logistic functions, and one of these 4 types was used as a testing effort function depending on the S/W developing circumstances. I propose the methology to evaluate the SRGM using least square estimator and maximum likelihood estimator for those 4 functions, and then examine parameters applying actual data adopted from real field test of developing S/W.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

소프트웨어의 테스트노력 곡선으로서 현재까지는 로지스틱 곡선이 가장 이상적인 것으로 연구되고 있다. 테스트 단계중에 소요되는 테스트노력의 양에 대한 결함 검출비를 현재의 결함 내용에 비례하는 것으로 가정하여 소프트웨어 신뢰도 성장 모델을 비동차 포아송 프로세스(NHPP)로 공식화하되, 이 모델을 이용하여 소프트웨어 신뢰도 척도에 대한 데이터 분석기법을 개발한다. 모든 소프트웨어 개발 환경에서 지금까지 제시된 여러 곡선 중 하나에 의해서 테스트노력 소요 곡선을 표현하는 것은 적절하지 못하다는 것이 밝혀지고 있다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 로지스틱 테스트노력 곡선이 소프트웨어의 개발/테스트 노력곡선으로 적절하게 표현될 수 있다는 것과 실제 데이터를 근거로 하여 적용하여서 예측성이 매우 좋은 능력을 가지고 있다는 것을 보이고자 한다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.467-474
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• 2013

It is common to measure multiple coverage metrics during software testing. Software reliability growth models and coverage growth functions have been applied to each coverage metric to evaluate software reliability; however, analysis results for the individual coverage metrics may conflict with each other. This paper proposes the virtual coverage metric of a normalized first principal component in order to avoid conflicting cases. The use of the virtual coverage metric causes a negligible loss of information.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.487-493
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• 2007

In this paper, we deal with an optimal software-release problem of determining the time to stop testing and release the software system to the user. The optimal release time problem is considered from maintenance like the periodic distribution of service packs and the unpredictable distribution of patches after the release. Moreover, the environment of software error-detection during operation differs from the environment during testing. This paper proposes the software reliability growth model which incorporates periodic service packs, unpredictable patches and operational environment. Based on the proposed model, we derive optimal release time to minimize total cost composed of fixing an error, testing and maintenance. Using numerical examples, optimal release time is determined and illustrated.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2010

지난 30여년간 개발소프트웨어의 잔여결함, 결함률 및 신뢰도와 같은 신뢰도 척도를 분석하기 위해 소프트웨어의 신뢰도 성장 모델이 개발되어 왔다. 이들 대부분은 개발중 검출되는 소프트웨어의 오류가 완벽하게 수정되는 것으로 가정하였다. 즉, 이들은 테스트중에 검출되는 오류가 완벽하게 제거되는 것을 가정하여 그들의 연구를 진행해왔던 것이다. 그러나 오류를 검출하는 것이 어려울 뿐만 아니라 그 과정에서 새로운 오류가 도입되기도 하기 때문에 오류를 완벽하게 제거하기는 대단히 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 그동안 가장 보편 타당한 것으로 평가되어 왔던 웨이불형과 비교하여 로지스틱 테스트 노력함수를 적용한 불왼전한 소프트웨어의 테스트 노력을 제안하여 연구 검토한다.