Supercompilers for parallel and vector computers
Supercompilers for parallel and vector computers
Estimating the Probability of Failure When Testing Reveals No Failures
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On the Use of Testability Measures for Dependability Assessment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On the Expected Number of Failures Detected by Subdomain Testing and Random Testing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Operational Profiles in Software-Reliability Engineering
IEEE Software
Theories of Program Testing and the Application of Revealing Subdomains
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Relational programs: An architecture for robust real-time safety-critical process-control systems
Annals of Software Engineering
Assessing the Sensitivity to Usage Profile Changes in Test Planning
ISSRE '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Systematic Reliability Analysis of a Class of Application-Specific Embedded Software Frameworks
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Deriving parameter characteristics
Proceedings of the 2nd India software engineering conference
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In the statistical sampling method, as in any other statistical approaches for measuring software reliability, the inputs to the program are chosen according to the estimated probability with which they occur in field use, forming the operational profile. However, in practice it is very difficult to accurately assess the operational distribution of input points. Furthermore, a variety of factors can cause the operational distribution to change during field use making the estimation even more difficult. Musa (1993) has suggested that reducing the size of the input domain simplifies the task of determining operational profiles. We present a class of techniques that reduce the dimensionality of input domains and describe their application. These techniques do not limit the functionality or change the input-output behavior of the program. An additional benefit of these techniques is the insensitivity of the reliability estimate to variations in the operational profile of variables eliminated from the input domain.