Software reliability. Non-probabilistic approach
Dmitry A. Maevsky, Helen D. Maevskaya, Alexander A. Leonov · Reliability: Theory & Applications · 2012
The article describes the main provisions of the new theory of software reliability, which is not based on probability theory and the theory of non-equilibrium processes. Emerging from the operation of software systems, defects are considered as the result of the forward and reverse defect flows. Relations are developed to predict the number of identified and introduced to system defects and they are opening the possibility of modeling the reliability of software systems, taking into account the secondary defects. It is shown that the majority of existing software reliability models can be derived from the provisions of the dynamics of software systems.