Title :
Software Reliability as an Application of Martingale & Filtering Theory
Author :
Koch, G. ; Spreij, P.J.C.
Author_Institution :
Instituto Matematico ``G. Castelnuovo´´´´; Universita di Roma; Citta Universitaria; 00100 Roma, ITALY.
Abstract :
We show how martingale theory provides a comprehensive framework to obtain models for software reliability. Conditional distributions are obtained by solving filtering problems. By means of these distributions several reliability measures can be computed.
Keywords :
Application software; Bayesian methods; Computer errors; Distributed computing; Error analysis; Filtering theory; Probability; Reliability theory; Software reliability; Software tools; Conditional Distribution; Filtering; Martingale; Software reliability;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1983.5221678
