An Experimental Analysis of Open Source Software Reliability
Cobra Rahmani, Harvey P. Siy, Azad Azadmanesh · 2009
Arrival failure times for five popular open source projects are analyzed and compared. The projects considered are Eclipse, Apache HTTP Server 2, Firefox, MPlayer OS X, and ClamWin Free Antivirus. The black-box reliability analysis of the projects is a 3-step approach that consists of bug-gathering, bug-filtering, and bug-analysis. Additionally, the reliabilities of multiple release versions of Eclipse are compared. It is projected that the future release of the projects under the same operational environment to follow similar reliability patterns. The results exhibit that Weibull distribution is a powerful analytical tool to be used in reliability growth modeling of such products.