Software reliability model selection for component-based real-time systems

Author

Garg, Mohit ; Lai, Richard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Comput. Eng., La Trobe Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Component-Based Real-Time Systems (CBRTS) such as an automotive system are nowadays composed using many heterogeneous software components. In order to examine its behavior at different development phases and during the runtime, designers need to have a good amount of confidence that the CBRTS and its software components have a certain level of reliability before such a system is constructed. Architecture-Based Software Reliability Models (ABSRMs) are useful for estimating the architectural reliability of component-based systems for quality control purposes. However, due to the availability of a number of models spread over different ABSRM categories, it is difficult to know which one is a suitable choice for a particular system. In this paper, we describe a method for selecting a suitable ABSRM to estimate software reliability at the design phase of a CBRTS development.

Keywords

object-oriented programming; real-time systems; software architecture; software quality; software reliability; ABSRM; CBRTS; architecture-based software reliability models; component-based real-time systems; heterogeneous software components; quality control purpose; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Markov processes; Reliability engineering; Software; Software reliability; Architecture-based models; architectural reliability; component-based real-time system; model selection; software reliability estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data and Software Engineering (ICODSE), 2014 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8175-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICODSE.2014.7062706

Filename

7062706