Arrival failure times for five popular open source projects are analyzed and compared. The projects considered are Eclipse, Apache HTTP Server 2, Firefox, MPlayer OS X, and ClamWin Free Antivirus. The black-box reliability analysis of the projects is a 3-step approach that consists of bug-gathering, bug-filtering, and bug-analysis. Additionally, the reliabilities of multiple release versions of...

Since the early 1970s tremendous growth has been seen in the research of software reliability growth modeling. In general, software reliability growth models (SRGMs) are applicable to the late stages of testing in software development and they can provide useful information about how to improve the reliability of software products. A number of SRGMs have been proposed in the literature to repre...

Software reliability is an important factor for quantitatively characterizing software quality and estimating the duration of software testing period. Traditional parametric software reliability growth models (SRGMs) such as nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) models have been successfully utilized in practical software reliability engineering. However, no single such parametric model can obt...

It is known that quantitative measures for the reliability of software systems can be derived from models. And, as such, support product development process. Over past four decades, research activities in this area have been performed. As a result, many models proposed. was shown that, once these reach certain level convergence, it enable developer to release software. And stop testing accordin...

Predicting the Software reliability is a pertinent issue and it is a major concern of software developers and engineers in changing environment considerations. Software reliability models are developed to estimate the probability of failure free operation of the software for a long time. Many Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGM) were developed to give the latent number of faults in the sof...

The estimation of the operational profile is one of the key factors during the use of software reliability growth models. But, the operational projle can be very dgficult to estimate in particular applications such as the one of sof iare used for process control. In other cases, a single operational profile may not be suf@cient to describe the use of the product by a number of different custome...