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A Software Reliability Assessment Tool for Distributed Software Development Projects

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At present, software development environment has been changing into new development paradigm. Moreover, a software development paradigm based on an open source project is rapidly spreading.

In this paper, we propose a software reliability assessment tool incorporating flexible software reliability growth models based on a nonhomogeneous Poisson process and stochastic differential equations for distributed development environment by using Java programming language. Especially, we incorporate the method of reliability assessment for open source software development into the software reliability assessment tool. Also, we analyze actual software fault count data to show numerical examples of software reliability assessment for the open source project by using the tool.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Environmental and Information Studies, Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Kita 1-1-1, Wakabadai, Tottori-shi, 689-1111, Japan

    Yoshinobu Tamura

  2. Department of Social Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori-shi, 680-8552, Japan

    Shigeru Yamada

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Tamura, Y., Yamada, S. A Software Reliability Assessment Tool for Distributed Software Development Projects. OPSEARCH 42, 297–309 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398741

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