Software reliability modelling with imperfect debugging and multiple error types
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1993
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Lynch, Thomas Jason
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Kuo, Way
Pham, Hoang
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The research for this project began by reviewing the literature on the topic of software reliability and software cost models. This review resulted in the decision to use a nonhomogeneous Poisson process to model the failure process of a software package. Two separate reliability models are presented in this paper that incorporate imperfect debugging with multiple failure types. The first allows for three different types of errors, but does not allow for their interaction. No interaction implies that when a particular type of error is being removed only errors of the same type can be introduced. The second model allows for two types of errors and has interaction between error types, but the functional form is not as mathematically tractible. Both models are improvements on the older models and each has its own very useful qualities.
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