Software is an integral part of many products, ranging from durable goods such as household appliances to large and complex commercial and industrial systems. With the increasing dependency on software in our daily lives, the size and complexity of software systems has grown dramatically. This trend is of great interest to the software industry, calling for more practical analysis and predictio...

Over the past 30 years, many software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been proposed for estimation of reliability growth of products during software development processes. One of the most important applications of SRGMs is to determine the software release time. Most software developers and managers always want to know the date on which the desired reliability goal will be met. In this p...

With the ever-increasing role that software is playing in our real-life systems, concern has steadily grown over the quality of the software products. In today’s life the computers are being used to monitor and control safety critical and civilian systems with a great demand for high-quality software products. So reliability is a primary concern for both software developers and software users. ...

In this age of technology, building quality software is essential to competing in the business market. One of the major principles required for any quality and business software product for value fulfillment is reliability. Estimating software reliability early during the software development life cycle saves time and money as it prevents spending larger sums fixing a defective software product...

Software reliability models play a dominant role in the analysis of failure data for real time command and control software systems. Goel and Okumoto model is a non homogenous Poisson Process software reliability growth model which has gained a lot of importance in software reliability analysis and prediction. The process of parameter estimation is the major drawback of this model because the i...

Reliability of software always related to software failures and a number of software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been proposed past few decades to predict software reliability. Different characteristics of SRGM leading to the study and practices of SRGM selection for different domains. Appropriate model must be chosen for suitable domain in order to predict the occurrence of the soft...

In recent years, many software development organizations have been assessing and analyzing their software product’s reliability/quality and judging whether the software product is releasable by using Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) at the final stage of software development. The usage of SRGMs originates in the advantage that various reliability analysis results based on the SRGMs ca...

Quantitative measurement of software reliability remains an elusive goal. Simultaneously, there is an ever increasing critical dependency on software-based systems in the human infrastructure. There is a great deal of research in addition to well-intentioned methods and practices focused on improving the reliability of software-based systems. To date, most of which still only yields qualitative...