Comparison of Software Reliability Assessment Methods for Open Source Software and Reliability Assessment Tool

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 489-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshinobu Tamura ◽  
Shigeru Yamada
Author(s):  
YOSHINOBU TAMURA ◽  
SHIGERU YAMADA

As a result of the technological progress, software development environment has changed into development paradigm based on client/server systems by using network computing technologies. Network technologies have made rapid progress with the dissemination of computer systems in all areas. These network technologies become increasingly more complex in a wide sphere. Especially, open source software systems which serve as key components of critical infrastructures in the society are still ever-expanding now. In this paper, we propose a method of software reliability assessment based on stochastic differential equations. Especially, we derive several assessment measures in terms of imperfect debugging. Also, we analyze actual software fault-count data to show numerical examples of software reliability assessment for an embedded open source software. Further, it has been necessary to manage the software development process in terms of reliability, effort, and release time. Then, we find the optimal release time based on the total expected software maintenance effort.


Author(s):  
YOSHINOBU TAMURA ◽  
SHIGERU YAMADA

Software development environment has been changing into new development paradigms such as concurrent distributed development environment and the so-called open source project by using network computing technologies. Especially, an OSS (open source software) system which serves as key components of critical infrastructures in the society is still ever-expanding now. In case of considering the effect of the debugging process on an entire system in the development of a method of reliability assessment for the OSS, it is necessary to grasp the deeply-intertwined factors, such as programming path, size of each component, skill of fault reporter, and so on. In order to consider the effect of each software component on the reliability of an entire system, we propose a new approach to user-oriented software reliability assessment by creating a fusion of neural network and software reliability growth modeling. In this paper, we show application examples of component-oriented software reliability assessment based on neural network and software reliability growth modeling for the OSS. Also, we analyze actual software fault count data to show numerical examples of software reliability assessment for the OSS. Moreover, we develop the testing management tool for OSS.


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