An infinite server queuing model for assessment of the software reliability
Tadashi Dohi, Toshiaki Matsuoka, Shunji Osaki · Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part III Fundamental Electronic Science) · 2001
Abstract In the testing phase, which is the final phase in the software development process, stochastic models known as software reliability growth models are often used to quantitatively assess the reliability of software products. In this paper, we propose an infinite server queuing model as a new framework to unify the software reliability growth models proposed previously. We present a new interpretation of conventional software reliability growth models by regarding the software failure occurrence process as an infinite server queue. In a numerical example, we compare the proposed model to the general order statistics model, which is another modeling framework, and demonstrate its effectiveness. © 2001 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 3, 85(3): 43–51, 2002