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Application of Systemability to Software Reliability Evaluation

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Software Engineering, Business Continuity, and Education (ASEA 2011)

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This paper applies the concept of systemability, which is defined as the reliability characteristic subject to the uncertainty of the field operational environment, to the operational software reliability evaluation. We take the position that the software reliability characteristic in the testing phase is originally different from that in the user operation. First we introduce the environmental factor to consistently bridge the gap between the software failure-occurrence characteristics during the testing and the operation phases. Then we consider the randomness of the environmental factor, i.e., the environmental factor is treated as a random-distributed variable. We use the hazard rate-based model focusing on the software failure-occurrence time to describe the software reliability growth phenomena in the testing and the operation phases. We derive several operational software reliability assessment measures. Finally, we show several numerical illustrations to investigate the impacts of the consideration of systemability on the field software reliability evaluation.

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  1. Department of Social Management Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 4-101, Koyama, Tottori-shi, 680-8552, Japan

    Koichi Tokuno & Shigeru Yamada

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  1. Multimedia Engineering Department, Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, 43210-1275, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea

    Haeng-kon Kim

  4. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, 800, Doan-dong, Seo-gu, 302-729, Daejeon, Korea

    Heau-jo Kang

  5. Woosuk University, 565-701, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

    Kyung Jung Kim

  6. University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Akingbehin Kiumi

  7. School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Byeong-Ho Kang

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Tokuno, K., Yamada, S. (2011). Application of Systemability to Software Reliability Evaluation. In: Kim, Th., et al. Software Engineering, Business Continuity, and Education. ASEA 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_56

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