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A mathematical modeling framework for software reliability testing

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Cai, Kai-Yuan; Dong, Zhao; Liu, Ke; Bai, Cheng-Gang
刊名INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL SYSTEMS
出版日期2007
卷号36期号:4页码:399-463
关键词software testing software reliability Markov usage model based testing software testing stability
ISSN号0308-1079
DOI10.1080/03081070600957939
英文摘要Software reliability testing refers to various software testing activities that are driven to achieve a quantitative reliability goal given a priori or lead to a quantitative reliability assessment for the software under test. In this paper we develop a modeling framework for the software reliability testing process, comprising a simplifying model and a generalized model. In both models the software testing action selection process and the defect removal mechanism are explicitly described. Both the discrete-time domain and the continuous-time domain are involved. The generalized model is more accurate or realistic than the simplifying model since the former avoids the assumption that defects are equally detectable and the assumption that defects are removed upon being detected. However simulation examples show that the simplifying model really captures some of essential features of the software testing process after a short initial testing stage. The modeling framework is practically realistic, mathematically rigorous, and quantitatively precise. It demonstrates that the relationship between software testing and delivered software reliability, which was poor understood, can well be formulated and quantified. Rigorous examinations show that several common assumptions adopted in software reliability modeling, including the independence assumption, the exponentiality assumption, and the NHPP assumption, are theoretically false in general. This paper sets a good starting point to further formalize and quantify the software testing process and its relation to delivered software reliability.
WOS研究方向Computer Science ; Engineering
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000246267500002
出版者TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
源URL[http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/4592]  
专题应用数学研究所
通讯作者Cai, Kai-Yuan
作者单位1.Beijing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Dept Automat Control, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Inst Appl Math, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
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Cai, Kai-Yuan,Dong, Zhao,Liu, Ke,et al. A mathematical modeling framework for software reliability testing[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL SYSTEMS,2007,36(4):399-463.
APA Cai, Kai-Yuan,Dong, Zhao,Liu, Ke,&Bai, Cheng-Gang.(2007).A mathematical modeling framework for software reliability testing.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL SYSTEMS,36(4),399-463.
MLA Cai, Kai-Yuan,et al."A mathematical modeling framework for software reliability testing".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL SYSTEMS 36.4(2007):399-463.

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