Software reliability qualitative evaluation method based on Bayesian networks

Author

Li, Qiu-Ying ; Jiang, Men-Cen ; Li, Hai-Feng ; Lu, Min-Yan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Eng. of Eng. Technol., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Beijing, China

Volume

4

fYear

2010

fDate

22-24 June 2010

Abstract

The correlative and uncertain relationship between software metrics and software reliability was analyzed. An approach for software reliability qualitative evaluation by using Bayesian networks was proposed. The rationale and process of this method were described in detail. The software reliability evaluation results were obtained by the causality reasoning. The proposed approach has been implemented in a case study. The experimental results constructed by the application process, key step and computational solution, showed that the approach was effective and could combine the expert experience, history data and various kinds of uncertain information to improve the modeling efficiency and validity, and provided a new method for software reliability evaluation.

Keywords

Bayes methods; software metrics; software performance evaluation; software reliability; Bayesian networks; application process; computational solution; expert experience; history data; key step; software metrics; software reliability qualitative evaluation method; Bayesian methods; Educational technology; Predictive models; Programming; Reliability engineering; Software metrics; Software reliability; Software testing; Space technology; Systems engineering and theory; Bayesian networks; qualitative evaluation; software metrics; software reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Technology and Computer (ICETC), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6367-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529643

Filename

5529643