Abstract: In this paper, software reliability measurement is studied from the perspective of usage profile. Reliability parameters on each usage profile are expressed with unascertained rational numbers. Since failure process of each usage profile can be affected by multiple factors such as software attributes and users imports etc., GEP (gene expression programming) is introduced into software...

There are many probabilistic and statistical approaches to modelling software reliability. Software reliability estimates are used for various purposes: during development, to make the release decision; and after the software has been taken into use, as part of system reliability estimation, as a basis of maintenance recommendations, and further improvement, or a basis of the recommendation to ...

It is known that the trend of the software reliability growth process changes during testing or operation phases in an actual environment due to a change of specification, software upgrading, a change of fault-target, and so forth. This paper discusses an extended two-dimensional software reliability growth modeling, in which the software reliability growth process is assumed to depend on the s...

A number of different software engineering paradigms like Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), Autonomic Computing, Service-Oriented Computing (SOC), Fault-Tolerant Computing and many others are being researched currently. These paradigms denote a paradigm shift from the currently mainstream object-oriented paradigm and are altering the way we view, design, develop and exercise software...

software quality attribute and Software reliability estimation is a hard problem to solve accurately. However for management of software quality and standard practice of the organization, accurate reliability estimation is important. Non-homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP) models and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models are among the most important software reliability growth models. In this p...

Software testing is a process to detect the errors in a totality and worth of developed software. Software reliability models provide quantitative measures of the software development processes. In this paper, an attempt has been made to discuss some testing domain based software reliability models and testing software and testing domain software reliability models based on ItO types Stochastic...

This paper presents a computational methodology based on matrix operations for a computer based solution to the problem of performance analysis of software reliability models (SRMs). A set of seven comparison criteria have been formulated to rank various non-homogenous Poisson process software reliability models proposed during the past 30 years to estimate software reliability measures such as...

In this paper, we propose an analytical model for component-based heterogeneous software architecture reliability and a method to find the solution for finding the optimal reliability of the overall software system according to the reliability of each component, the operational profile, and the architecture of software. Our approach is based on Markov chain properties and architecture perspecti...

This paper mainly concentrates on the different methods of software reliability assessment and prediction. We are also shown systematically and scientifically that the software reliability levels assessed are proved by facts and are relatively modest. Keywords-Software reliability, reliability prediction, SRGM.

Most of the previously reported literature focused primarily on the reliability evaluation and prediction of component–based software systems, rather than exploring cost/reliability tradeoffs among competing architectural alternatives. A few techniques which treat the subject of reliability optimization assume the system to be series–parallel, an assumption that does not hold even in the case o...