Integration of Testing Effort Function into Delayed S-Shaped Software Reliability Growth Model with Imperfect Debugging — a Proposed Bokhari Model

Mohammad Ubaidullah Bokhari, Md. Ashraf Siddiqui and Afaq Ahmad ()
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Mohammad Ubaidullah Bokhari: Aligarh Muslim University
Md. Ashraf Siddiqui: Aligarh Muslim University
Afaq Ahmad: Sultan Qaboos University

SN Operations Research Forum, 2021, vol. 2, issue 4, 1-23

Abstract: Abstract Assurance of software reliability is an important factor in software applications, and the process of software testing has become one of the essential requirements in software development. Many software reliability growth models have been developed based on non-homogeneous Poisson process, which incorporates logistic testing effort function. The paper proposed and developed a delayed S-shaped software reliability growth model with imperfect debugging, which integrates the Burr Type XII testing effort function. The testing effort function parameters are estimated by least square estimation method and S-shaped software reliability growth model parameters by maximum likelihood estimation. Various software reliability growth models are investigated through three data sets under perfect debugging and one data set under imperfect debugging. It is found that the proposed delayed S-shaped software reliability growth model with imperfect debugging has a better error prediction capability.

Keywords: Software testing; S-shaped software reliability growth model; Burr Type XII testing effort function; Least square; Maximum likelihood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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