Incorporating fault dependency and debugging delay in software reliability analysis

Author

Peng, R. ; Hu, Q.P. ; Ng, S.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

641

Lastpage

645

Abstract

Traditional software reliability growth models are on the trend for generalization. The original restricted assumptions are released to adapt to different practical software testing environments. As far as our current research is concerned, the assumptions of immediate fault removal and fault independency are released. In this paper, a modeling framework for software reliability is proposed to incorporate both fault dependency and debugging time delay. Various models are derived based on different assumptions on debugging lag. This approach is illustrated with a real dataset from a software project.

Keywords

program debugging; program testing; software reliability; debugging delay; debugging lag; fault dependency; fault independency; fault removal; software project; software reliability analysis; software testing; Computer industry; Debugging; Delay effects; Fault detection; Information systems; Mathematical model; Reliability engineering; Software reliability; Software testing; Systems engineering and theory; fault dependency; fault-correction process; fault-detection process; software reliability; software reliability growth model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2329-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2330-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654440

Filename

4654440