Title :
Applying testability to reliability estimation
Author :
Yang, Mark C K ; Wong, W. Eric ; Pasquini, Alberto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Stat., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
Abstract :
The purpose of the article is to implement the idea of using testability to estimate software reliability. The basic steps involve estimating testability, evaluating how well software was written, and assessing the effectiveness of testing. Results from these steps along with operational profiles are used to estimate software reliability. The paper describes an application of this method to evaluate the reliability of a real software system of about 6000 lines of executable code and discusses the results of such an estimation. The results are also compared with those obtained by using two reliability growth models
Keywords :
program testing; software performance evaluation; software reliability; executable code; operational profiles; real software system; reliability estimation; reliability growth models; software reliability; testability; testing effectiveness; Ear; Fault detection; Identity-based encryption; Information analysis; Programming; Read only memory; Software reliability; Software testing; Statistics; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Reliability Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. The Ninth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paderborn
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8991-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISSRE.1998.730848
