Investigating coverage-reliability relationship and sensitivity of reliability to errors in the operational profile

Author

Garg, Praerit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

21-22 Dec 1994

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

35

Abstract

The focus of the work is an investigation into the correlation between “true” reliability of a software system and the white box testing measures such as block coverage, c-uses and p-uses coverage. We believe that software reliability and testing measures, especially white box testing, are inherently related. Results from experiments are presented to support this belief. We also demonstrate that the estimated reliability is sensitive to the operational profile defined for the software and hence errors in the operational profile may lead to incorrect reliability estimates

Keywords

errors; program testing; software reliability; block coverage; c-use coverage; coverage-reliability relationship; errors; estimated reliability; operational profile; p-use coverage; reliability sensitivity; software reliability measures; software system; software testing measures; true reliability; white box testing measures; Application software; Computer errors; Life estimation; Software measurement; Software quality; Software reliability; Software systems; Software testing; Surges; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Testing, Reliability and Quality Assurance, 1994. Conference Proceedings., First International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2608-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STRQA.1994.526380

Filename

526380