Test-Execution-Based Reliability Measurement and Modeling for Large Commercial Software

  • Authors:
  • Jeff Tian;Peng Lu;Joe Palma

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This paper studies practical reliability measurement and modeling for large commercial software systems based on test execution data collected during system testing. The application environment and the goals of reliability assessment were analyzed to identify appropriate measurement data. Various reliability growth models were used on failure data normalized by test case executions to track testing progress and provide reliability assessment. Practical problems in data collection, reliability measurement and modeling, and modeling result analysis were also examined. The results demonstrated the feasibility of reliability measurement in a large commercial software development environment and provided a practical comparison of various reliability measurements and models under such an environment.