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A Study on Software Reliability Assessment Model of Superposition NHPP

중첩 NHPP를 이용한 소프트웨어 신뢰도 평가 모형 연구

  • Kim, Do-Hoon (Department of Applied Information Statistics, Kyonggi University) ;
  • Nam, Kyung-H. (Department of Applied Information Statistics, Kyonggi University)
  • 김도훈 (경기대학교 응용정보통계학과) ;
  • 남경현 (경기대학교 응용정보통계학과)
  • Published : 2008.03.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a software reliability growth model based on the superposition cause in the software system, which is isolated by the executed test cases in software testing. In particular, our model assumes an imperfect debugging environment in which new faults are introduced in the fault-correction process, and is formulated as a nonhomogeneous Poisson process(NHPP). Further, it is applied to fault-detection data, the results of software reliability assessment are shown, and comparison of goodness-of-fit with the existing software reliability growth model is performed.

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