Software quality assurance activities in Japan
Japanese perspectives in software engineering
Software reliability modeling survey
Handbook of software reliability engineering
Estimating the Number of Residual Defects
HASE '98 The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering
Process Modelling to Support Dependability Arguments
DSN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Number of Faults per Line of Code
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Many reliability prediction techniques require an estimate for the number of residual faults. In this paper, a new theory is developed for using test coverage to estimate the number of residual faults. This theory is applied to a specific example with known faults and the results agree well with the theory. The theory is used to justify the use of linear extrapolation to estimate residual faults. It is also shown that it is important to establish the amount of unreachable code in order to make a realistic residual fault estimate.