Software Reliability Predictions using Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract

Computer-based artificial systems have been widely applied in nearly every field of human activities. Whenever people rely heavily on some product/technique, they want to make sure that it is reliable. However, computer systems are not as reliable as expected, and software has always been a major cause of the problems. With the increasing reliability of hardware and growing complexity of software, the software reliability is a rising concern for both developer and users. Software reliability engineering (SRE) has attracted a lot of interests and research in the software community and software reliability modeling is one major part of SRE research.