Effort-index-based software reliability growth models and performance assessment

Abstract

The authors show that the logistic testing effort function is practically acceptable/helpful for modeling the software reliability growth and providing a reasonable description of resource consumption. Therefore, in addition to the exponential shaped models, we integrate the logistic testing effort function into an S-shaped model for further analysis. The model is designated as the Yamada Delayed S-shaped model. A realistic failure data set is used in the experiments to demonstrate the estimation procedures and results. Furthermore, the analysis of the proposed model under an imperfect debugging environment is investigated. In fact, from these experimental results and discussions, it is apparent that the logistic testing-effort function is very suitable for making estimations of resource consumption during the software development/testing phase.