Reliability Testing Method for Multi-modules Software with Markov Transfer of Control
Jiajin Le · 2008
Due to the software multi-modules developing trend and the disadvantage of current software testing methods to treat the software system as a monolithic block,a reliability testing method is presented for the modular software with Markov transfer of control.The main idea of the testing method is that we can monitor and control the software reliability in the module level via allocating the reliability target of software system to the software modules based on the reliability model optimally,and validate the system reliability target by testing the software in system level again.According to the maximum entropy principle,the problem of how to estimate and demonstrate the system reliability with few failure data is solved emphatically.