Hazard Rate Modeling for Software Reliability Assessment with Multiple Change-Point Occurrences  
Author Naoki Takada

 

Co-Author(s) Shinji Inoue; Shigeru Yamada

 

Abstract A software hazard rate model is known as one of the important and useful mathematical models for describing the software failure-occurence phenomenon and conducting quantitative software reliability assessment. In this study, we develop a more realistic software hazard rate model by considering with the effect of multiple change-point occurrences for more plausible software reliability growth modeling and improving the accuracy of software reliability assessment based on a sowtware reliability growth model. Finally, we conduct goodness-of-fit comparisons of our model with existing models, and show numerical examples of software reliability assessment based on our model by using actual data.

 

Keywords Software Reliability Assessment, Software Reliability Growth Model, Hazard Rate Model, Multiple Change-Point Occurrences
   
    Article #:  20178
 
Proceedings of the 20th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design
August 7-9, 2014 - Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.