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Recent Developments in Software Reliability Modeling and its Applications

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Stochastic Reliability and Maintenance Modeling

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Management technologies for improving software reliability are very important for software total quality management (TQM). The quality characteristics of software reliability are that computer systems can continue to operate regularly without the occurrence of failures on software systems. In this chapter, we describe several recent developments in software reliability modeling and its applications as quantitative techniques for software quality/reliability measurement and assessment. That is, a quality engineering analysis of human factors affecting software reliability during the design review phase, which is the upper stream of software development, and software reliability growth models based on stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and discrete calculus during the testing-phase, which is the lower one, are discussed. Finally, we discuss quality-oriented software management analysis by applying the multivariate analysis method and the existing software reliability growth models to actual process monitoring data.

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The author is very grateful to Professor Shunji Osaki who stimulated his interest in software reliability theory through many interesting discussions.

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  1. Department of Social Management Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori-shi, 680-8552, Japan

    Shigeru Yamada

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Yamada, S. (2013). Recent Developments in Software Reliability Modeling and its Applications. In: Dohi, T., Nakagawa, T. (eds) Stochastic Reliability and Maintenance Modeling. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, vol 9. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4971-2_12

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