Architecture-Based Software Reliability Analysis: Overview and Limitations
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
CBSE'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Component-based software engineering
A taxonomy of software architecture-based reliability efforts
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
Parameterized reliability prediction for component-based software architectures
QoSA'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Quality of Software Architectures: research into Practice - Reality and Gaps
Architectural design decisions for achieving reliable software systems
ISARCS'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Architecting Critical Systems
A survey of computational intelligence approaches for software reliability prediction
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Component based development is gaining popularity in the software engineering community. The reliability of components affects the reliability of the system. Different models and theories have been developed to estimate system reliability given the information about system architecture and the quality of the components. Almost always in these models a key attribute of component-based systems, the error propagation between the components, is overlooked and not taken into account in the reliability prediction. We extend our previous work on Bayesian reliability prediction of component based systems by introducing the error propagation probability into the model. We demonstrate the impact of the error propagation in a case study of an automated Personnel Access Control System. We conclude that error propagation may have a significant impact on the system reliability prediction and, therefore, future architecture-based models should not ignore it.