Comparison of Software Reliability Assessment Methods for Open Source Software

Author

Tamura, Yoshinobu ; Yamada, Shigeru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst., Tottori Univ. of Environ. Studies

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

22-22 July 2005

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

492

Abstract

IT (information technology) advanced with steady steps from 1970´s is essential in our daily life. As the results of the advances in high-speed data-transfer network technology, software development environment has been changing into new development paradigm. In this paper, we propose software reliability assessment methods for concurrent distributed system development by using the analytic hierarchy process. Also, we make a comparison between the inflection S-shaped software reliability growth model and the other models based on a nonhomogeneous Poisson process applied to reliability assessment of the entire system composed of several software components. Moreover, we analyze actual software fault count data to show numerical examples of software reliability assessment for the open source project. Furthermore, we investigate an efficient software reliability assessment method for the actual open source system development

Keywords

distributed programming; public domain software; software reliability; stochastic processes; S-shaped software reliability growth model; concurrent distributed system; hierarchy process; high-speed data-transfer network technology; information technology; nonhomogeneous Poisson process; open source software; open source system development; software component; software development environment; software fault count data; software reliability assessment method; Collaborative software; Information systems; Information technology; Internet; Object oriented modeling; Open source software; Programming; Reliability engineering; Software reliability; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

ISSN

1521-9097

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2281-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.2005.111

Filename

1524356