Multi-model Assessment of Software Reliability
Renzuo Xu · Journal of Tongji University · 2002
There has existed for a long time the difficulty in applying reliability models in practice of reliability engineering of software.Which model should we trust among about 100 available reliability models with different predictions for a single piece of software under consideration?With the estimates of a model,how much confidence do we have in believing that the model predicts the truth?Indeed,software practitioners are in a dilemma in making decisions.In this paper,an effort is made in trying to provide a solution by exploring the robust inference methodology,and by investigating into the machinery for model mixing and selection,and the Bayes prior structure.