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摘要
In the software reliability engineering (SRE) literature, few attempts have been made to model the failure phenomenon of commercial software during its operational use. One of the reasons can be attributed to the inability of software engineers to measure the growth in usage of commercial software while it is in the market. It is unlike the testing phase where resources follow a definite pattern. In this paper, an attempt has been made to model the software reliability growth linking it to the number of users. Since the number of instructions executed depends on the number of users. The number of users is estimated through an innovation diffusion model of marketing. Once the estimated value is known, the rate at which instructions are executed can be found. The intensity with which failures would be reported depends upon this value. To model the failure observation or defect removal phenomena, a non-homogenous Poisson process (NHPP) based software reliability models developed in the literature have been employed. Software reliability models are most often used for reliability projection when development work is complete and before the software is shipped to customers. They can also be used to model the failure pattern or the defect arrival pattern in the field and thereby provide valuable input to maintenance planning. Numerical example with real software field reliability data is presented to illustrate descriptive and predictive performance as well as to show practical applications of the proposed models.
- 出版日期2014
