Evaluation of competing software reliability predictions
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on reliability and safety in real-time process control
Software reliability: measurement, prediction, application
Software reliability: measurement, prediction, application
A Bayesian modification to the Jelinski-Moranda software reliability model
Software Engineering Journal
A logarithmic poisson execution time model for software reliability measurement
ICSE '84 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Software engineering
Estimating the Probability of Failure When Testing Reveals No Failures
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Prediction of Software Reliability Using Connectionist Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Reliable software and communication: software quality, reliability, and safety
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
An Empirical Method for Selecting Software Reliability Growth Models
Empirical Software Engineering
New Ways to Get Accurate Reliability Measures
IEEE Software
Software Measurement: A Necessary Scientific Basis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Assessment of the Reliability of Fault-Tolerant Software: A Bayesian Approach
SAFECOMP '00 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
Defect-Based Reliability Analysis for Mission-Critical Software
COMPSAC '00 24th International Computer Software and Applications Conference
A conservative theory for long term reliability growth prediction
ISSRE '96 Proceedings of the The Seventh International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
A Non-Parametric Approach to Software Reliability Prediction
ISSRE '97 Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Software reliability forecasting by support vector machines with simulated annealing algorithms
Journal of Systems and Software
Uncertainty explicit assessment of off-the-shelf software: A Bayesian approach
Information and Software Technology
Relativity in software engineering measurements
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Dependability metrics
An approach to software reliability prediction based on time series modeling
Journal of Systems and Software
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There is no universally applicable software reliability growth model which can be trusted to give accurate predictions of reliability in all circumstances. A technique of analyzing predictive accuracy called the u-plot allows a user to estimate the relationship between the predicted reliability and the true reliability. It is shown how this can be used to improve reliability predictions in a very general way by a process of recalibration. Simulation results show that the technique gives improved reliability predictions in a large proportion of cases. However, a user does not need to trust the efficacy of recalibration, since the new reliability estimates produced by the technique are truly predictive and their accuracy in a particular application can be judged using the earlier methods. The generality of this approach suggests its use whenever a software reliability model is used. Indeed, although this work arose from the need to address the poor performance of software reliability models, it is likely to have applicability in other areas such as reliability growth modeling for hardware.