Adapting Bass-Niu model for product diffusion to software reliability
Sumantra Chakravarty · Reliability: Theory & Applications · 2007
Software reliability growth is a well studied subject, perhaps starting with the classic work by Jelinski and Moranda [Jelinski 1972]. Applicability of reliability growth models is well established in where large (100 KLOC or more) software is written and maintained. Examples of such enterprises are application software, space exploration, telecommunication, etc. One can obtain the definition of standard terms (e.g., fault, failure) and operational summary of most widely used software reliability models from a document maintained by NASA Software Assurance Technology Center [Wallace].