Testing of software with an operational profile

Testing of software with an operational profile

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Article ID: iaor20013304
Country: United States
Volume: 47
Issue: 8
Start Page Number: 620
End Page Number: 634
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Journal: Naval Research Logistics
Authors: , ,
Keywords: testing, programming: nonlinear
Abstract:

One of the important features of any software system is its operational profile. This is simply the set of all operations that a software is designed to perform and the occurrence probabilities of these operations. We present a new model on optimal software testing such that testing is done sequentially using a set of test cases. There may be failures due to the operations in each of these cases. The model parameters, consisting of testing costs and failure rates, all depend on the cases used and the operations performed. Our aim is to find the optimal testing durations in all of the cases in order to minimize the total expected cost. This problem leads to interesting decision models involving nonlinear programming formulations that possess explicit analytical solutions under reasonable assumptions.

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