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Choosing software reliability models

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Date Issued:
1989
Summary:
One of the important problems which software engineers face is how to determine which software reliability model should be used for a particular system. Some recent attempts to compare different models used complementary graphical and analytical techniques. These techniques require an excessive amount of time for plotting the data and running the analyses, and they are still rather subjective as to which model is best. So another technique needs to be found that is simpler and yet yields a less subjective measure of goodness of fit. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) is proposed as a new approach for selecting the best model. The performance of AIC is measured by Monte-Carlo simulation and by comparison to published data sets. The AIC chooses the correct model 95% of the time.
Title: Choosing software reliability models.
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Name(s): Woodcock, Timothy G.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor
Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M.
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1989
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 107 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: One of the important problems which software engineers face is how to determine which software reliability model should be used for a particular system. Some recent attempts to compare different models used complementary graphical and analytical techniques. These techniques require an excessive amount of time for plotting the data and running the analyses, and they are still rather subjective as to which model is best. So another technique needs to be found that is simpler and yet yields a less subjective measure of goodness of fit. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) is proposed as a new approach for selecting the best model. The performance of AIC is measured by Monte-Carlo simulation and by comparison to published data sets. The AIC chooses the correct model 95% of the time.
Identifier: 14561 (digitool), FADT14561 (IID), fau:11358 (fedora)
Note(s): Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1989.
Subject(s): Computer software--Testing
Computer software--Reliability
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