Article ID: | iaor20043046 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 149 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 459 |
End Page Number: | 474 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | zekici S., Soyer R. |
Keywords: | markov processes, stochastic processes |
This article provides the stochastic and statistical framework to model software reliability in the presence of an operational profile. The software system is used under a randomly changing operational process so that the failure characteristics depend on the specific operation performed. The operational process describes, in a probabilistic sense, how the software is utilized by the users. The time to failure distribution for each fault is exponentially distributed with a rate that depends on the operation. As soon as a failure is experienced, the fault that caused the fault is removed immediately with certainty. We discuss several issues related to software reliability and statistical inference.