• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.909-916
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• 2010

A trend in software reliability engineering is to take into account the coverage growth behavior during testing. A coverage growth function that represents the coverage growth behavior is an essential factor in software reliability models. When multiple competitive coverage growth functions are available, there is a need for a criterion to select the best coverage growth functions. This paper proposes a selection criterion based on the prediction error. The conditional coverage growth function is introduced for predicting future coverage growth. Then the sum of the squares of the prediction error is defined and used for selecting the best coverage growth function.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.667-674
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• 2011

A recent trend in software reliability engineering accounts for the coverage growth behavior during testing. The coverage growth function (representing the coverage growth behavior) has become an essential component of software reliability models. Application of a coverage growth function requires the estimation of the coverage growth function. This paper considers the problem of estimating the coverage growth function. The existing maximum likelihood method is reviewed and corrected. A method of minimizing the sum of squares of the standardized prediction error is proposed for situations where the maximum likelihood method is not applicable.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.497-506
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• 2007

Coverage-based NHPP SRGMs have been introduced in order to incorporate the coverage growth behavior into the NHPP SRGMs. The coverage growth function representing the coverage growth behavior during testing is thus an essential factor of the coverage-based NHPP SRGMs. This paper proposes a class of discrete time coverage growth functions and illustrates its application to real data sets.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.87-99
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• 2005

Coverage-based software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been developed and successfully applied in practice. Performance of a coverage-based SRG M depends on the coverage function employed by the SRGM. When the coverage function represents the coverage growth behavior well irrespective of type of the testing profile the corresponding coverage-based SRGM is expected to be widely applicable. This paper first conducts a study of selecting the most representative coverage functions among the available coverage functions. Then their performances are empirically evaluated and compared. The result provides a foundation for developing widely applicable coverage-based SRGMs and monitoring the progress of a testing process.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.110-121
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• 2004

There is a new trend of incorporating software coverage metrics into software reliability modelling. This paper proposes a coverage-based software reliability growth model. Firstly, the failure rate function in coverage is analytically derived. Then it is shown that the number of detected faults follows a Nonhomogeneous Poisson distribution of which intensity function is the failure rate function in coverage. Practical applicability of the proposed models is examined by illustrative numerical examples.

• 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.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제8D권4호
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• pp.409-420
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• 2001

소프트웨어 신뢰도는 소프트웨어 시스템의 매우 중요한 특성으로 테스팅 하는 동안 소프트웨어 신뢰도를 평가하기 위해 테스트 적용범위 정보를 이용하는 방법이 최근 시도되고 있다. 본 논문은 최근 문헌에 나타난 테스트 적용범위를 이용하는 소프트웨어 신뢰도 성장모델들을 검토하여 이들을 2개 부류로 분류한 다음 각각의 문제점을 논의하고 현실적 타당성을 검토한다. 더불어, 새로운 평균치 함수와 적절한 적용범위를 선택하기 위한 절차를 제안한다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.875-881
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• 2008

This paper first discusses the existing non-homogeneous Poisson process(NHPP) software reliability growth model(SRGM) frameworks with respect to capability of representing software reliability growth phenomenon. As an enhancement of representational capability a new general coverage-based NHPP SRGM framework is developed. Issues associated with application of the new framework are then considered.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.53-66
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new non-homogeneous Poisson process software reliability growth model based on the coverage information. The new model incorporates the coverage information in the fault detection process by assuming that only the faults in the covered constructs are detectable. Since the coverage growth behavior depends on the testing strategy, the fault detection process is first modeled for the general testing strategy and then realized for the uniform testing. Finally the model for the uniform testing is empirically evaluated by applying it to real data sets.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제11D권6호
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• pp.1287-1294
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• 2004

최근 소프트웨어 신뢰성을 평가하기 위해 신뢰성 측도와 커버리지 간의 관계가 연구되고 있다. 특히 커버리지에 기반한 소프트웨어 신뢰성 성장 모델에서 평균치 함수는 소프트웨어의 신뢰성 성장을 나타내는데 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 논문은 커버리지에 기반한 기존 모형들의 문제점을 평균치 함수와 그 모형이 근거하는 가정을 바탕으로 파악하고, 그 문제점을 해결하기 위한 새로운 평균치 함수를 제안한다. 제안된 새로운 평균치 함수는 불완전 결함 발견과 구문의 반복 실행이 허용되는 일반적인 테스팅 환경에서 도출된 결과이다. 마지막으로 실제 데이터에 제안된 모형을 적용하여 그 성능을 평가한다.