• 품질경영학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.17-26
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• 1989

This paper is concerned with forecasting the existing number of errors in the computer software and optimizing the stopping time of the software test based upon the forecasted number of errors. The most commonly used models have assessed software reliability under the assumption that the software failure late is proportional to the current fault content of the software but invariant to time since software faults are independents of others and equally likely to cause a failure during testing. In practice, it has been observed that in many situations, the failure rate decrease. Hence, this paper proposes a mathematical model to describe testing situations where the failure rate of software limearly decreases proportional to testing time. The least square method is used to estimate parameters of the mathematical model. A cost model to optimize the software testing time is also proposed. In this cost mode two cost factors are considered. The first cost is to test execution cost directly proportional to test time and the second cost is the failure cost incurred after delivery of the software to user. The failure cost is assumed to be proportional to the number of errors remained in the software at the test stopping time. The optimal stopping time is determined to minimize the total cost, which is the sum of test execution cast and the failure cost. A numerical example is solved to illustrate the proposed procedure.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.351-358
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• 2016

과학기술이 급속하게 발전함에 따라 더 강력한 소프트웨어 기능의 급속한 발전과 함께 소프트웨어의 복잡성이 크게 증가함으로써 소프트웨어 테스트 및 신뢰성 평가의 어려움이 증가하고 있다. 소프트웨어 고장분석을 위한 비동질적인 포아송 과정에서 결함당 고장발생률이 상수이거나, 단조 증가 또는, 단조 감소하는 패턴을 가질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 결함의 기대값을 가정하는 유한고장 소프트웨어 NHPP 모형과 수리시점에서도 고장이 발생할 상황을 반영하는 무한고장 NHPP 모형들을 상호 비교 제시하였다. 소프트웨어 신뢰성 분야에서 많이 사용되는 어랑분포에 근거한 유한고장과 무한고장 소프트웨어 신뢰성 모형에 대한 신뢰도 성능을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 유한고장 모형이 무한고장 모형보다 효율적으로 좋게 나타났으며, 이 과정에서 모수추정법은 최우추정법을 이용하였다. 본 연구결과를 통하여 소프트웨어 개발자들에게 소프트웨어 고장현상을 파악하는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.566-572
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• 2016

소프트웨어 개발과정에서 소프트웨어 신뢰성은 매우 중요한 문제 중에 하나이다. 소프트웨어 고장현상을 분석하기 위하여 비동질적인 포아송과정에서 고장 발생 추이를 의미하는 위험함수가 고장시간에 독립적으로 일정하거나, 종속적인 경우, 즉 비-증가 또는, 비-감소하는 속성을 가질 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 소프트웨어 제품 테스팅 과정에서 고장 수명분포로서 어랑분포의 다양한 형상모수를 고려한 소프트웨어 개발 비용 분석에 대하여 연구되었다. 소프트웨어 고장현상을 분석하기 위하여 모수추정은 최우추정법이 사용되었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 어랑분포의 형상모수를 고려한 소프트웨어 개발비용모형 분석을 위하여 소프트웨어 고장간격 시간자료를 이용하여 비교 및 평가하였다. 그 결과 형상모수에 따른 비용곡선을 비교 하였을 때 형상모형이 작을수록 비용이 많고 소프트웨어 최적 방출시간이 지연 됨을 알 수 있었다. 이 연구를 통하여 소프트웨어 개발자들에게 소프트웨어 형상모수에 따른 개발 비용을 탐색하는데, 기본적으로 도움을 줄 수 있는 사전정보의 역할을 할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.71-80
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• 2017

Software reliability is one of the most elementary and important problems in software development In order to find the software failure occurrence, the instantaneous failure rate function in the Poisson process can have a constant, incremental or decreasing tendency independently of the failure time. In this study, we compared the reliability performance of the software reliability model using the parameters of Pareto life distribution with the intensity decreasing pattern and the shape parameter of Erlang life distribution with the intensity increasing and decreasing pattern in the software product testing. In order to identify the software failure environment, the parametric estimation was applied to the maximum likelihood estimation method. Therefore, in this paper, we compare and evaluate software reliability by applying software failure time data. The reliability of the Erlang and Pareto life models is shown to be higher than that of the Pareto lifetime distribution model when the shape parameter is higher and the Erlang model is more reliable when the shape parameter is higher. Through this study, the software design department will be able to help the software design by applying various life distribution and shape parameters, and providing basic knowledge using software failure analysis.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.129-132
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• 2007

It is generally known that software reliability growth models such as the Jelinski-Moranda model and the Goel-Okumoto's non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) model cannot be applied to safety-critical software due to a lack of software failure data. In this paper, by applying two of the most widely known software reliability growth models to sample software failure data, we demonstrate the possibility of using the software reliability growth models to prove the high reliability of safety-critical software. The high sensitivity of a piece of software's reliability to software failure data, as well as a lack of sufficient software failure data, is also identified as a possible limitation when applying the software reliability growth models to safety-critical software.

• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권4A호
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• pp.399-414
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• 2004

In this paper, an evolution of software reliability engineering in a large-scale software project is summarized. The considered software consists of many components, called functional blocks in software of switching system. These functional blocks are served as the unit of coding and test, and the software is continuously updated by adding new functional blocks. We are mainly concerned with the analysis of the effects of these software components in software reliability and reliability evolution. We analyze the static characteristics of the software related to software reliability using collected failure data during system test. We also discussed a pattern which represents a local and global growth of the software reliability as version evolves. To find the pattern of system software, we apply the S-shaped model to a collection of failure data sets of each evolutionary version and the Goel-Okumoto(G-O) model to a grouped overall failure data set. We expect this pattern analysis will be helpful to plan and manage necessary human/resources fur a new similar software project which is developed under the same developing circumstances by estimating the total software failures with respect to its size and time.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2022

본 연구는 소프트웨어 품질 특성인 기능적합성, 신뢰성, 사용성, 이식성, 유지보수성, 성능효율성, 보안성, 호환성 중에서 신뢰성에 대한 평가 방안을 연구하였다. 소프트웨어 품질 측정에 있어 신뢰성의 정량적 평가 방안을 제시한다. 본 연구는 소프트웨어 품질 특성 중 하나인 신뢰성 평가 중 성숙성에 포함되는 고장률을 측정하는 방법에 대해서 소개하고 고장 데이터의 형태에 따라 고장률이 어떻게 변화하는지에 대해 실험데이터를 가지고 연구한 내용이다. 소프트웨어 테스팅을 중심으로 매일의 고장 수를 중심으로 소프트웨어 신뢰성 성장 모델에 적용하여 고장률을 측정하여 고장 데이터의 형태에 따라 비교 분석하였다. 6일간의 테스트를 통해서 발견된 고장 시간을 중심으로 고장률을 측정하고 측정결과를 이용해서 국제표준 ISO/IEC 25023에서 제시하고 있는 고장률과 비교 하였으며 데이터 형태에 따라 적용방안을 검토하였다.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2001

The failure rate functions between successive failures are of concatenated form. We allow the parameters of failure rate function change after a certain failure and its fixing. We confine out attention to a model wherein the interfailure times are described by its failure rate function. We suggest an adaptive failure rate function with a change-point under the assumption that interfailure times are record value statistics from a Weibull distribution. The proposed model will be applied through a practical example of software failure data.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.117-125
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• 2016

Software reliability in the software development process is an important issue. In infinite failure non-homogeneous Poisson process software reliability models, the failure occurrence rates per fault. can be presented constant, monotonic increasing or monotonic decreasing pattern. In this paper, the reliability software cost model considering decreasing intensity function was studied in the software product testing process. The decreasing intensity function that can be widely used in the field of reliability using power law process, log-linear processes and Musal-Okumoto process were studied and the parameter estimation method was used for maximum likelihood estimation. In this paper, from the software model analysis, we was compared by applying a software failure interval failure data considering the decreasing intensity function The decreasing intensity function model is also efficient in terms of reliability in the arena of the conservative model can be used as an alternating model can be established. From this paper, the software developers have to consider life distribution by preceding information of the software to classify failure modes which can be gifted to support.