A Documentation Structure for Software Reliability Growth Models
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چکیده
In spite of the rich literature on software reliability growth models, it is not always easy to find correct or sufficiently detailed information on these models. As an attempt to improve upon this situation, we present a general documentation structure for software reliability growth models based on best practices from statistics. To illustrate our documentation structure, we sketch the details for the Jelinski-Moranda and Goel-Okumoto models. Even for these well-studied, simple models there are not widely known as well as not yet available results. Finally, we report on the status of a new tool that we are developing to incorporate our approach.
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