CONTINUOUS-STATE SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELING WITH TESTING-EFFORT AND ITS GOODNESS-OF-FIT

摘要

We propose a continuous-state software reliability growth model with testing-effort and conduct its goodness-of-fit evaluation. A testing-effort is well-known as a key factor being related to the software reliability growth process. We also discuss a parameter estimation method for our model. Then, several software reliability assessment measures are derived from the probability distribution of its solution process, and we compare our model with existing continuous-state software reliability growth models in terms of goodness-of-fit by using actual fault count data.