Method and system for assessing and analyzing software reliability
AssigneeNational Tsing Hua University
InventorsCHU TI LIN, CHIN YU HUANG
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Abstract
A method for assessing and analyzing software reliability comprises the steps of: collecting failure data from a software system during a testing period; providing a reliability model having a testing compression factor, wherein the reliability model is used to fit the failure data; providing an estimation function derived from the reliability model; obtaining the value of the testing compression factor in accordance with the estimation function; and using the testing compression factor to determine the efficiency of test cases.
Claims17
A method for assessing and analyzing software reliability, the method comprising the steps of:
- collecting failure data from a software system during a testing period;
- providing a reliability model having a testing compression factor, wherein the reliability model is used to fit the failure data;
- providing an estimation function derived from the reliability model;
- obtaining the value of the testing compression factor in accordance with the estimation function;
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- using the testing compression factor to determine the efficiency of test cases.
A method for assessing and analyzing software reliability, comprising the steps of:
- collecting failure data from a software system during a testing period;
- providing a reliability model having a testing compression factor, wherein the reliability model is used to fit the failure data;
- providing an estimation function derived from the reliability model;
- obtaining unknown values of parameters of the reliability model in accordance with the estimation function;
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- using the parameters to analyze the software reliability.
A software testing system having a reliability model with a testing compression factor, wherein the reliability model includes a validation phase, a field trial phase and an operation phase, and the testing compression factor is used to evaluate the characteristic of the field trial and operation phases.
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