Debugging Process Oriented Software Reliability Models and Their Goodness-of-Fit
Shinji Inoue, Shigeru Yamada · 2018
Debugging process oriented software reliability growth modeling by using a phase type probability distribution is discussed. The accuracy of model-based software reliability assessment can be conducted by developing more plausible models. As to the approaches, generalized and discretized modeling schemes and reflecting testing environment are often discussed so far. This paper focuses on a debugging process for developing software reliability growth model. Concretely, we propose a few specific models for software reliability assessment by considering several debugging processes respectively based on the notion of a phase-type probability distribution. We show our approaches are expected to get better fitting performance compared with well-known existing model after model comparisons using actual software counting data, and clear the usefulness of a phase-type modeling approach.