A bayesian reliability analysis model by a single debugger for discrete‐type software and its application
Hiroaki Sandoh, Susumu Fujii, Tatsuya Yamawaki · Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part III Fundamental Electronic Science) · 1990
Abstract A reliability analysis model is proposed for software products at their development stage from the Bayesian viewpoint, with emphasis on such software products as the usual mathematical software used discretely in time. In the proposed model, a single debugger is engaged in conducting software tests and in debugging a software product, where the significations of “single debugger” are as follows: the model does not consider the case where several software engineers conduct software tests and debugging for the same software product independently of each other to collate their respective detected bugs after the tests. On the basis of the proposed model, an optimum release problem for software products is also formulated. The proposed methods are demonstrated by presenting numerical examples to clarify their characteristics.