Study on the Determination Method of the Minimal Software Reliability Test Effort based on Sampling Probability
By means of analysis of softwares usage, it can be known that the softwares actual usage is just like a stochastic process, whose series of usage events are extended according to some probability distribution. If the statistical characteristics of software reliability test suite is that of the implementation in practice when customers actually use the software product, that is to say, the test process is converge to the actual usage process. Thus the minimal test effort can be determined by measuring the approximate extent of statistical characteristics of test suite to that of the whole input domain. Based on the sampling probability, one determination method of the minimal software reliability test effort is proposed in this paper and the recommended value is presented. Compared to one existing method, this method is based on the same principle of the test suites statistical characteristics, but it adopts one different mathematical method whose demonstration detail is given and finally the influence factors of the minimal test effort are discussed in detail.
determination method software reliability test efforts sampling probability minimal
LI Qiu-ying Ji Ping
School of Reliability and Systems Engineering Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing 100191, China
国际会议
上海
英文
149-153
2011-03-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）