• DocumentCode
    1487560
  • Title

    A Gibbs-sampler approach to estimate the number of faults in a system using capture-recapture sampling [software reliability]

  • Author

    Hayakawa, Yu ; Yip, Paul S F

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Victoria Univ., Wellington, New Zealand
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    12/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    342
  • Lastpage
    350
  • Abstract
    A new recapture debugging model is suggested to estimate the number of faults in a system, ν, and the failure intensity of each fault, φ. The Gibbs sampler and the Metropolis algorithm are used in this inference procedure. A numerical illustration suggests a notable improvement on the estimation of ν and φ compared with that of a removal debugging model
  • Keywords
    estimation theory; failure analysis; inference mechanisms; software reliability; Gibbs-sampler approach; Metropolis algorithm; capture-recapture sampling; estimation performance; failure intensity; inference procedure; recapture debugging model; software reliability; system fault number estimation; Counting circuits; Debugging; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Inference algorithms; Maximum likelihood estimation; Predictive models; Sampling methods; Software reliability; Statistical distributions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/24.922486
  • Filename
    922486