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Reliability is one of the most important aspects of product quality. Software reliability research has been going on worldwide and many software reliability models are proposed and studied. In this paper, we first review some of the important software reliability models and then discuss them with respect to their validity and usefulness. The final part of this paper is aimed to present some simple models for the analysis of software failure data. Unlike the conventional approach, we present our model based on the graphical interpretation and this approach allows us to easily test a few models before detailed study based on a selected model is carried out.
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Xie, M. (1995). Software Reliability Models for Practical Applications. In: Lee, M., Barta, BZ., Juliff, P. (eds) Software Quality and Productivity. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34848-3_32
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