Assessing reliability of modular software

  • Authors:
  • Peter Kubat

  • Affiliations:
  • GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA 02254, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

A stochastic model which describes behavior of a modular software system is developed and the software system failure rate is derived. The optimal value for the individual module failure rate is derived, under the assumptions that a certain cost function is minimized and that the entire system is guaranteed to have an overall failure rate of a prescribed level.