Modeling Optimal Software Release and Patch Release Time
Mahima Garg, Palak Saxena, Vijay S. Kumar · 2022 10th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions) (ICRITO) · 2022
Nowadays, software technology is widely used in our day to day life. The software industry faces challenges in producing highly reliable software to meet the customer demand. Software industry must not only deliver their product timely but also be prepared with continuous process in order to stay competitive. Software companies need to update their software product so that company would remain in the market. The software companies release patches to update the software features, to improve the functionality and security. Timely release of software patches improves the quality of software, consequently enhances the goodwill of software company. In this research work, we have addressed the issue of timely release of software and patch release with the objective to minimize the testing of software. We have developed a mathematical model which minimizes the testing cost incorporating software and patch release time when the software is under warranty/support period. Further, we have apply Genetic algorithm on a real time data set. The suggested model can be expanded with the inclusion of a multi-release modeling framework.