Software reliability modeling survey
Handbook of software reliability engineering
Handbook of software reliability engineering
Probability and statistics with reliability, queuing and computer science applications
Probability and statistics with reliability, queuing and computer science applications
Measurement of Failure Rate in Widely Distributed Software
FTCS '95 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
Reliability Growth in Software Products
ISSRE '04 Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Stabilization Time - A Quality Metric for Software Products
ISSRE '06 Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Software Reliability Models: Assumptions, Limitations, and Applicability
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
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Most software reliability growth models work under the assumption that reliability of software grows due to the removal of bugs that cause failures. However, another phenomenon has often been observed—the failure rate of a software product following its release decreases with time even if no bugs are corrected. In this article we present a simple model to represent this phenomenon. We introduce the concept of initial transient failure rate of the product and assume that it decays with a factor α per unit time thereby increasing the product reliability with time. When the transient failure rate decays away, the product displays a steady state failure rate. We discuss how the parameters in this model—initial transient failure rate, decay factor, and steady state failure rate—can be determined from the failure and sales data of a product. We also describe how, using the model, we can determine the product stabilization time—a product quality metric that describes how long it takes a product to reach close to its stable failure rate. We provide many examples where this model has been applied to data from released products.