TY - JOUR
T1 - Software reliability and cost models
T2 - Perspectives, comparison, and practice
AU - Pham, Hoang
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the US Federal Aviation Administration William J. Hughes Technical Center under Grant 98-G-006 and US National Science Foundation under Grant INT-0107755. The author would like to thank the editor and the referees for their useful suggestions and comments.
PY - 2003/9/16
Y1 - 2003/9/16
N2 - Computer software has gradually become an indispensable element in many aspects of our daily life and an important factor in numerous critical applications such as nuclear plants, medical monitoring control, real-time military and air traffic control. In this paper, we present recent studies in software reliability engineering that include nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) software reliability models, NHPP models with environmental factors, and cost models. Several applications are presented to illustrate the models. More applications are needed to fully validate the descriptive and predictive software reliability models in a general industrial setting. Future research directions in software reliability are also discussed.
AB - Computer software has gradually become an indispensable element in many aspects of our daily life and an important factor in numerous critical applications such as nuclear plants, medical monitoring control, real-time military and air traffic control. In this paper, we present recent studies in software reliability engineering that include nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) software reliability models, NHPP models with environmental factors, and cost models. Several applications are presented to illustrate the models. More applications are needed to fully validate the descriptive and predictive software reliability models in a general industrial setting. Future research directions in software reliability are also discussed.
KW - Cost model
KW - Nonhomogeneous Poisson process
KW - Quasi-renewal process
KW - Reliability optimization
KW - Software reliability
KW - Software testing
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U2 - 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00498-8
DO - 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00498-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038238725
SN - 0377-2217
VL - 149
SP - 475
EP - 489
JO - European Journal of Operational Research
JF - European Journal of Operational Research
IS - 3
ER -