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TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHANGE-POINT MODELING FOR SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT

Department of Social Management Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 4-101 Minami, Koyama-cho, Tottori-shi, Tottori 680-8552, Japan

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KEISUKE FUKUMA

Department of Social Management Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 4-101 Minami, Koyama-cho, Tottori-shi, Tottori 680-8552, Japan

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SHIGERU YAMADA

Department of Social Management Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 4-101 Minami, Koyama-cho, Tottori-shi, Tottori 680-8552, Japan

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Abstract

Most of software reliability growth models (SRGMs) describe a software reliability growth process depending on only testing-time. However, it is said that a software reliability growth process in an actual testing-phase of a software development process depends on not only testing-time but also testing-effort factors. And we often observe a phenomenon that stochastic characteristics of the software failure-occurrence time or the software failure-occurrence time-interval changes notably in an actual testing-phase. The testing-time when such phenomenon is observed is called change-point. It is said that the effect of change-point on the software reliability growth process influences accuracy for software reliability assessment based on conventional SRGMs. This paper discusses a two-dimensional software reliability growth modeling with change-point for describing an actual phenomenon being related to the software reliability growth process. Further, we show examples of the applications of software reliability assessment based on our two-dimensional SRGM by using actual data.

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