Title :
Reliability demonstration testing for software
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bus. Adm., Univ. of Marketing & Distribution Sci., Kobe, Japan
fDate :
4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Reliability demonstration testing for software conducted to demonstrate whether the specified reliability has been achieved in a software product is studied. The software-reliability demonstration test is based on two risks. This procedure determines a test time and a maximum number of software failures during the test under prespecified producer and consumer risks. A procedure for zero software-failure reliability demonstration testing is proposed where the software product is accepted only if no failures occur in a specified testing time. The procedure based on two types of risk is identical to that for hardware items. The formulation for the zero software-failure reliability demonstration testing is identical to zero failure reliability demonstration testing for hardware items
Keywords :
program testing; software reliability; consumer risks; reliability demonstration testing; software; test time; Art; Computer bugs; Control systems; Data analysis; Ducts; Hardware; Reliability engineering; Software debugging; Software reliability; Software testing;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
