Software reliability assessment using accelerated testing methods

Software reliability assessment using accelerated testing methods

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Article ID: iaor19991726
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 47
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 15
End Page Number: 30
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Journal: Applied Statistics
Authors: , , , ,
Keywords: statistics: experiment
Abstract:

The use of operational profiles and usage-based testing has received considerable attention recently in the software engineering literature. Testing under the actual operational profile can, however, be expensive, time consuming or even infeasible in situations where the performance of a system is dominated by infrequent but highly critical events. We consider a real application that deals with telecommunications network restoration after network failure caused by cuts in fibre optic cables. We use this application to demonstrate the usefulness of traditional accelerated testing methods to test and estimate software reliability. These methods, which have been extensively used in hardware reliability, have an important role to play in software reliability assessment as well.

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