Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

  • 제20권6호
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  • Pages.467-474
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  • 2013
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  • 2287-7843(pISSN)
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  • 2383-4757(eISSN)
한국통계학회 (The Korean Statistical Society)
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Virtual Coverage: A New Approach to Coverage-Based Software Reliability Engineering

  • Park, Joong-Yang (Department of Information and Statistics, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Lee, Gyemin (Department of Information and Statistics, Gyeongsang National University)
  • 투고 : 2013.09.01
  • 심사 : 2013.10.21
  • 발행 : 2013.11.30
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It is common to measure multiple coverage metrics during software testing. Software reliability growth models and coverage growth functions have been applied to each coverage metric to evaluate software reliability; however, analysis results for the individual coverage metrics may conflict with each other. This paper proposes the virtual coverage metric of a normalized first principal component in order to avoid conflicting cases. The use of the virtual coverage metric causes a negligible loss of information.

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