Title :
Software reliability: assumptions, realities and data
Author :
Defamie, Michel ; Jacobs, Patrick ; Thollembeck, Jacques
Author_Institution :
Siemens Bus. Services, Namur, Belgium
Abstract :
Software reliability models are an important issue to identify the actual state of the system during the quality assurance process and to predict the customer release reliability. Major assumptions of state of the art models are compared with some realities of a very large system from industry. Data (failure statistics) observed during the quality assurance process and after 7 years of customer release (1990-96) are supplied to validate existing or upcoming research models
Keywords :
software development management; software performance evaluation; software quality; software reliability; customer release reliability; failure statistics; quality assurance process; research models; software reliability models; state of the art models; very large system; Instruments; Jacobian matrices; Mathematical model; Postal services; Quality assurance; Software quality; Software reliability; Software tools; Statistics; Tellurium;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 1999. (ICSM '99) Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oxford
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0016-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.1999.792631
