Software reliability assessment using accelerated testing methods

نویسندگان

  • Willa K. Ehrlich
  • Vijayan N. Nair
  • M. S. Alam
  • W. H. Chen
  • Mark Engel
چکیده

The use of operational pro®les and usage-based testing has received considerable attention recently in the software engineering literature. Testing under the actual operational pro®le can, however, be expensive, time consuming or even infeasible in situations where the performance of a system is dominated by infrequent but highly critical events. We consider a real application that deals with telecommunications network restoration after network failure caused by cuts in ®bre optic cables. We use this application to demonstrate the usefulness of traditional accelerated testing methods to test and estimate software reliability. These methods, which have been extensively used in hardware reliability, have an important role to play in software reliability assessment as well.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998