Software reliability assessment tool based on object-oriented analysis and its application

  • Authors:

  • Shigeru Yamada;Mitsuhiro Kimura

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Social Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori‐shi 680‐8552, Japan E-mail: yamada@sse.tottori‐u.ac.jp;Department of Social Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori‐shi 680‐8552, Japan E-mail: yamada@sse.tottori‐u.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In general, the software testing‐efforts which are spent in large‐scale software development account for a half of the total amount of the development effort. Therefore, the management of fault‐detection and fault‐correction activities in the testing phase is very important to efficiently and economically develop a highly‐reliable software product. In this paper, a software management tool which aids the quality/reliability assessment and testing‐progress control in the testing phase is developed. This tool consists of several sub‐systems that analyze software fault‐detection data and assess software quality/reliability and testing‐progress based on adopted software reliability growth models. Also, we use JAVA language to implement the tool. The JAVA language is widely known as an object‐oriented and platform‐free programming language. These characteristics are suitable for constructing our tool, because the tool will be revised to adopt new software reliability growth models and/or new testing‐control techniques.