A Study on Software Reliability Prediction Based on Transduction Inference

Non-parametric statistical methods are applied to verdict that early failure behavior of the testing process may have less impact on later failure process, so it happens in software failure time prediction that one does not have enough information to estimate the software failure process well but do have enough information to estimate the failure data at given instance. The prediction accuracy of software reliability prediction models based on recurrent neural network, feed-forward neural network, relevance vector machine, support vector machine and some nonhomogeneous Poisson process models is compared. Experimental results show that software failure time prediction models based on transduction inference theory could achieve higher prediction accuracy.