On Practical Software Reliability Assessment System Based on Computational Statistics and Its Applications to Software Management

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25330081
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Software
• Research Institution: Tottori University
• Principal Investigator: Inoue Shinji 鳥取大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (60432605)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ソフトウェア信頼性 / ブートストラップ区間推定 / ソフトウェア信頼度成長モデル / ソフトウェア信頼性評価 / ソフトウェア最適リリース問題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed a bootstrapping simulator for conducting software reliability assessment with their uncertainty. This simulator enables us to obtain the probability distributions of parameters in a software reliability growth model and software reliability assessment measures and conduct interval estimation of them. Regarding the interval estimation, we applied several bootstrap confidence intervals for obtaining the appropriate result of interval estimation from the bootstrap distribution. Furthermore, we discussed methods for the bootstrapping interval estimation of optimal software release time by applying our bootstrapping method to so-called optimal software release problem, which is one of the problems in software management.

Free Research Field

ソフトウェア信頼性工学