On optimality of one‐bug‐look‐ahead policies for a software testing model
Xiaoyue Jiang, Donglei Du, Thomas G. Ray · Naval Research Logistics (NRL) · 2007
Abstract The optimality of the One‐Bug‐Look‐Ahead (OLA) software release policy proposed by Morali and Soyer ( Nav Res Logist 50 (2003), 88–104 ) is re‐examined in this paper. A counterexample is constructed to show that OLA is not optimal in general. The optimal stopping approach is then called upon to prove that OLA possesses weaker sense of optimality under conditional monotonicity and the strong sense of optimality holds under a more restrictive sample‐wise monotonicity condition. The NTDS data are analyzed for illustration, and OLA is shown to be robust with respect to model parameters. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007.