Bicriterion Release policy for exponential software reliability growth model

In this paper the authors propose a new software release policy called the Bicreterion Release policy. This policy optimizes two conflicting objectives, namely, software reliability and total expected cost subject to budget and reliability constraints. Various existing policies based on reliability or cost criteria are particular cases of the proposed policy. Post optimality analysis is also performed to help a software developer in fixing the software life cycle length and the reliability goal. The results are illustrated by numerical examples.