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The software quality measurement based on software reliability model (소프트웨어 신뢰성 모델링 기반 소프트웨어 품질 측정)

  • Jung, Hye-Jung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 2019
  • This study proposes a method to measure software reliability according to software reliability measurement model to measure software reliability. The model presented in this study uses the distribution of Non - Homogeneous Poisson Process and presents a measure of the software reliability of the presented model. As a method to select a suitable software reliability growth model according to the presented model, we have studied a method of proposing an appropriate software reliability function by calculating the mean square error according to the estimated value of the reliability function according to the software failure data. In this study, we propose a reliability function to measure the software quality and suggest a method to select the software reliability function from the viewpoint of minimizing the error of the estimation value by applying the failure data.

Improved Exponential Software Reliability Model Based on NHPP with the Uncertainty of Operating Environments

  • Song, Kwang Yoon;Chang, In Hong
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.249-257
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    • 2017
  • The main focus when developing software is to improve the reliability and stability of a software system. We are enjoying a very comfortable life thanks to modern civilization, however, comfort is not guaranteed to us. Once software systems are introduced, the software systems used in the field environments are the same as or close to those used in the development-testing environment; however, the systems may be used in many different locations. Development of software system is a difficult and complex process. Generally, existing software reliability models are applied to software testing data and then used to make predictions on the software failures and reliability in the field. In this paper, we present an improved exponential NHPP software reliability model in different development environments, and examine the goodness-of-fit of improved exponential model and other model based on two datasets. The results show that the proposed model fits significantly better than other NHPP software reliability model.

Software Reliability of Safety Critical FPGA-based System using System Engineering Approach

  • Pradana, Satrio;Jung, Jae Cheon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2018
  • The main objective of this paper is come up with methodology approach for FPGA-based system in verification and validation lifecycle regarding software reliability using system engineering approach. The steps of both reverse engineering and re-engineering are carried out to implement an FPGA-based of safety critical system in Nuclear Power Plant. The reverse engineering methodology is applied to elicit the requirements of the system as well as gain understanding of the current life cycle and V&V activities of FPGA based-system. The re-engineering method is carried out to get a new methodology approach of software reliability, particularly Software Reliability Growth Model. For measure the software reliability of a given FPGA-based system, the following steps are executed as; requirements definition and measurement, evaluation of candidate reliability model, and the validation of the selected system. As conclusion, a new methodology approach for software reliability measurement using software reliability growth model is developed.

Reliability Models for Application Software in Maintenance Phase

  • Chen, Yung-Chung;Tsai, Shih-Ying;Chen, Peter
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2008
  • With growing demand for zero defects, predicting reliability of software systems is gaining importance. Software reliability models are used to estimate the reliability or the number of latent defects in a software product. Most reliability models to estimate the reliability of software in the literature are based on the development lifecycle stages. However, in the maintenance phase, the software needs to be corrected for errors and to be enhanced for the requests from users. These decrease the reliability of software. Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) have been applied successfully to model software reliability in development phase. The software reliability in maintenance phase exhibits many types of systematic or irregular behaviors. These may include cyclic behavior as well as long-term evolutionary trends. The cyclic behavior may involve multiple periodicities and may be asymmetric in nature. In this paper, SGRM has been adapted to develop a reliability prediction model for the software in maintenance phase. The model is established using maintenance data from a commercial shop floor control system. The model is accepted to be used for resource planning and assuring the quality of the maintenance work to the user.

Modelling A Relationship Between Reliability and Software Coverage

  • Park, Joong-Yang;Kim, Young-Soon;Park, Jae-Heung
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.131-139
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    • 2003
  • There is a new trend of incorporating software coverage metrics into software modelling. This paper proposes and empirically evaluates a software reliability growth model, which relates reliability to coverage. The proposed model is derived by modifying the assumptions on which Veevers and Marshall model is based.

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A New Methodology for Software Reliability based on Statistical Modeling

  • Avinash S;Y.Srinivas;P.Annan naidu
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.157-161
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    • 2023
  • Reliability is one of the computable quality features of the software. To assess the reliability the software reliability growth models(SRGMS) are used at different test times based on statistical learning models. In all situations, Tradational time-based SRGMS may not be enough, and such models cannot recognize errors in small and medium sized applications.Numerous traditional reliability measures are used to test software errors during application development and testing. In the software testing and maintenance phase, however, new errors are taken into consideration in real time in order to decide the reliability estimate. In this article, we suggest using the Weibull model as a computational approach to eradicate the problem of software reliability modeling. In the suggested model, a new distribution model is suggested to improve the reliability estimation method. We compute the model developed and stabilize its efficiency with other popular software reliability growth models from the research publication. Our assessment results show that the proposed Model is worthier to S-shaped Yamada, Generalized Poisson, NHPP.

POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF APPLYING SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS TO SAFETY-CRITICAL SOFTWARE

  • Kim, Man-Cheol;Jang, Seung-Cheol;Ha, Jae-Joo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.129-132
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    • 2007
  • It is generally known that software reliability growth models such as the Jelinski-Moranda model and the Goel-Okumoto's non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) model cannot be applied to safety-critical software due to a lack of software failure data. In this paper, by applying two of the most widely known software reliability growth models to sample software failure data, we demonstrate the possibility of using the software reliability growth models to prove the high reliability of safety-critical software. The high sensitivity of a piece of software's reliability to software failure data, as well as a lack of sufficient software failure data, is also identified as a possible limitation when applying the software reliability growth models to safety-critical software.

A software reliability model with a Burr Type III fault detection rate function

  • Song, Kwang Yoon;Chang, In Hong;Choi, Min Su
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.149-158
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    • 2016
  • We are enjoying a very comfortable life thanks to modern civilization, however, comfort is not guaranteed to us. Development of software system is a difficult and complex process. Therefore, the main focus of software development is on improving the reliability and stability of a software system. We have become aware of the importance of developing software reliability models and have begun to develop software reliability models. NHPP software reliability models have been developed through the fault intensity rate function and the mean value functions within a controlled testing environment to estimate reliability metrics such as the number of residual faults, failure rate, and reliability of the software. In this paper, we present a new NHPP software reliability model with Burr Type III fault detection rate, and present the goodness-of-fit of the fault detection rate software reliability model and other NHPP models based on two datasets of software testing data. The results show that the proposed model fits significantly better than other NHPP software reliability models.

A SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ESTIMATION METHOD TO NUCLEAR SAFETY SOFTWARE

  • Park, Gee-Yong;Jang, Seung Cheol
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2014
  • A method for estimating software reliability for nuclear safety software is proposed in this paper. This method is based on the software reliability growth model (SRGM), where the behavior of software failure is assumed to follow a non-homogeneous Poisson process. Two types of modeling schemes based on a particular underlying method are proposed in order to more precisely estimate and predict the number of software defects based on very rare software failure data. The Bayesian statistical inference is employed to estimate the model parameters by incorporating software test cases as a covariate into the model. It was identified that these models are capable of reasonably estimating the remaining number of software defects which directly affects the reactor trip functions. The software reliability might be estimated from these modeling equations, and one approach of obtaining software reliability value is proposed in this paper.

TRUNCATED SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL

  • Prince Williams, D.R.;Vivekanandan, P.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.761-769
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    • 2002
  • Due to the large scale application of software systems, software reliability plays an important role in software developments. In this paper, a software reliability growth model (SRGM) is proposed. The testing time on the right is truncated in this model. The instantaneous failure rate, mean-value function, error detection rate, reliability of the software, estimation of parameters and the simple applications of this model are discussed .