A Software Reliability Model Using Fault Removal Efficiency
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https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1523Keywords:
Reliability model, NHPP model, SRGM, software reliability engineering, project managementAbstract
With the increase of human dependency over computer software, considerable effort has been given to determine software reliability effectively. A huge variety of software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been developed to explain statistically how system reliability varies over time by monitoring the failure data sets during the testing process. The paper proposes a new SRGM based on taking into account the fault removal efficiency which is the ratio of corrected and detected faults during the testing process. The new model is compared to some known model from the relevant literature for two certain data sets and it turns out to perform better in terms of four GOF benchmarks.
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