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Estimation of reliability and cost relationship for architecture-based software

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In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the relationship between software reliability and software development cost taking into account the complexity for developing the software system and the size of software intended to develop during the implementation phase of the software development life cycle. On the basis of estimated relationship, a set of empirical data has been used to validate the correctness of the proposed model by comparing the result with the other existing models. The outcome of this work shows that the method proposed here is a relatively straightforward one in formulating the relationship between reliability and cost during implementation phase.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, 110142, PRC

    Hui Guan, Wei-Ru Chen & Ning Huang

  2. Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE19BH, UK

    Hui Guan & Hong-Ji Yang

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Hui Guan received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in computer science from the Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, PRC in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Since January 2009, she has been a Ph.D. candidate at De Montfort University, UK, in the Faculty of Computing Science and Engineering. In the meantime, she is a lecturer in the Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology.

Her research interests include software reliability, model driven development, and software security.

Wei-Ru Chen received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from Northeast University, PRC in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He is currently the head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, PRC.

His research interests include software architecture, software reliability, and data mining.

Ning Huang received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in computer science from Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, PRC in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Now, she is a laboratory assistant in Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology.

Her research interests include software reliability and software architecture.

Hong-Ji Yang received the B. Sc. and M.Phil. degrees from Jilin University in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Durham University, UK in 1994. Currently, he is a professor at the Software Technology Research Laboratory, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, UK and leads the Software Evolution and Reengineering Group.

He served as a program co-chair at IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance in 1999 and the program chair at IEEE Computer Software and Application Conference in 2002. His research interests include software engineering and pervasive computing.

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Guan, H., Chen, WR., Huang, N. et al. Estimation of reliability and cost relationship for architecture-based software. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 7, 603–610 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-010-0546-0

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