The effect of testing on the reliability of single version and 1-out-of-2 software systems

Author

Djambazov, Krassimir ; Popov, Peter

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. & Commun. Syst., Bulgarian Acad. of Sci., Sofia, Bulgaria

fYear

1995

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

228

Abstract

Some experimental results related to the effect of testing on the reliability of software systems are presented. The experiments were performed on a simulator designed for behavioral modelling of software systems in the presence of design faults. The topics of the experiments are defined as: the influence of the testing profile on the reliability evolution of a single version system, the influence of the design faults size on the evolution of system reliability in different testing profiles and the effect of the testing strategy on the reliability of 1-out-of-2 fault-tolerant scheme. In the last topic, three testing strategies are considered: individual, in coalition and back-to-back testing

Keywords

program testing; software fault tolerance; virtual machines; 1-out-of-2 fault-tolerant scheme; 1-out-of-2 software systems; back to back testing; behavioral modelling; design faults; design faults size; reliability evolution; single version software systems reliability; single version system; software testing; system reliability; testing profile; Character generation; Debugging; Fault detection; Fault tolerant systems; Predictive models; Process control; Software reliability; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reliability Engineering, 1995. Proceedings., Sixth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1071-9458

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7131-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSRE.1995.497661

Filename

497661