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Dynamic Methods

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There is a kind of so-called defect-counting software reliability models which take the number of software defects as a model parameter and use past software failure times to forecast future software failure/reliability behavior. Obviously in theory, these models can be used to estimate the number of software defects as long as the observed software failure data suffice the model parameter estimation schemes to work. Dynamic methods mean that the ‘dynamic’ information of failure times are used.

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Cai, KY. (1998). Dynamic Methods. In: Software Defect and Operational Profile Modeling. The Kluwer International Series in Software Engineering, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5593-3_3

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