Software reliability and redundancy optimization

Author

Chi, Dong-Hae ; Lin, Hsin-Hui ; Kuo, Way

Author_Institution

Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

24-26 Jan 1989

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

45

Abstract

A procedure for reliability-related quality programming is developed to fill existing gaps in software design and development so that a quality programming plan can be achieved. The authors investigate the tradeoff between system reliability improvement and resource consumption through the management phase. A software reliability-to-cost relation is developed from both a software reliability-related cost model and software redundancy models with common-cause failures. The software reliability optimization problem can be formulated into a mixed-integer programming problem and solved by a branch-and-bound technique

Keywords

failure analysis; integer programming; optimisation; redundancy; software reliability; branch-and-bound technique; common-cause failures; management phase; mixed-integer programming; quality programming plan; redundancy optimization; reliability-related quality programming; resource consumption; software design; software development; software reliability; software reliability-to-cost relation; system reliability improvement; Cost function; Design optimization; Hardware; Personnel; Redundancy; Resource management; Software debugging; Software performance; Software reliability; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1989. Proceedings., Annual

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARMS.1989.49570

Filename

49570