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A note on software reliability monitoring by moving-average method based on a bootstrap scheme

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This paper proposes a method of on-line software reliability monitoring during the software testing phase. Especially, we provide the reliability on-line charting based on the moving-average of the estimated values of software reliability measure in order to obtain a stable evaluation result for the fluctuating environment of software testing phase. For doing this, we use the incomplete gamma function model and a bootstrap resampling scheme. After the model description, we show several numerical illustrations which is based on the actually collected software debugging data set.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported in part by KAKENHI, the Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research© (20500036) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Mitsuhiro Kimura

  2. Business Cube & Partners, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

    Takaji Fujiwara

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Kimura, M., Fujiwara, T. A note on software reliability monitoring by moving-average method based on a bootstrap scheme. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 1, 293–298 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-011-0033-1

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