A Case Study for Invalidating the Markovian Property of GUI Software Structural Profile

Author

Yin, Bei-Bei ; Shi, Yan ; Bai, Cheng-Gang ; Cai, Kai-Yuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Control, Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut.

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

447

Lastpage

454

Abstract

Software reliability is one of the key factors for determining the quality of software, and a number of software reliability models have been developed for measuring it, among which a group of Markov-based models prevails. In fact, the Markovian assumption can also widely observed in performance evaluation of software system. In this paper, an experimental approach is used to check if GUI software structural profile, which is defined as transfer of control among software modules or states, possesses Markovian property, utilizing x² hypothesis test. The result of the case study indicates that the structural profile of GUI software fails to fit a Markov process

Keywords

Markov processes; graphical user interfaces; software performance evaluation; software reliability; GUI software structural profile; Markov model; Markov process; graphical user interface; performance evaluation; software module; software quality; software reliability model; software system; Application software; Extraterrestrial measurements; Graphical user interfaces; Markov processes; Object oriented modeling; Software measurement; Software quality; Software reliability; Software systems; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2006. COMPSAC '06. 30th Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2655-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSAC.2006.6

Filename

4020107