Applying testability to reliability estimation

Author

Yang, Mark C K ; Wong, W. Eric ; Pasquini, Alberto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Stat., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

4-7 Nov 1998

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

99

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to implement the idea of using testability to estimate software reliability. The basic steps involve estimating testability, evaluating how well software was written, and assessing the effectiveness of testing. Results from these steps along with operational profiles are used to estimate software reliability. The paper describes an application of this method to evaluate the reliability of a real software system of about 6000 lines of executable code and discusses the results of such an estimation. The results are also compared with those obtained by using two reliability growth models

Keywords

program testing; software performance evaluation; software reliability; executable code; operational profiles; real software system; reliability estimation; reliability growth models; software reliability; testability; testing effectiveness; Ear; Fault detection; Identity-based encryption; Information analysis; Programming; Read only memory; Software reliability; Software testing; Statistics; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reliability Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. The Ninth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Paderborn

ISSN

1071-9458

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8991-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSRE.1998.730848

Filename

730848