Making statistical inferences about software reliability
Douglas R. Miller · NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) · 1986
Failure times of software undergoing random debugging can be modelled as order statistics of independent but nonidentically distributed exponential random variables. Using this model inferences can be made about current reliability and, if debugging continues, future reliability. This model also shows the difficulty inherent in statistical verification of very highly reliable software such as that used by digital avionics in commercial aircraft.