Reliability estimation and prediction of SA producing process based on Markov chain

SA-based software reliability estimation, which is applied in the early stage of software life cycle, is used to allocate resources to components to achieve the desired reliability effectively. This paper proposed an approach to predict reliability of the whole SA producing process by estimating and evaluating the different stages´ reliability in SA producing process based on Markov chain. A case study illustrates the applicability of the approach.