NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE RELIABILITY Revealing the Nature of Software Failure Dataseries

Andreas S. Andreou, Constantinos Leonidou

2005

Abstract

Software reliability is directly related to the number and time of occurrence of software failures. Thus, if we were able to reveal and characterize the behavior of the evolution of actual software failures over time then we could possibly build more accurate models for estimating and predicting software reliability. This paper focuses on the study of the nature of empirical software failure data via a nonparametric statistical framework. Six different time-series data expressing times between successive software failures were investigated and a random behavior was detected with evidences favoring a pink noise explanation.

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S. Andreou A. and Leonidou C. (2005). NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE RELIABILITY Revealing the Nature of Software Failure Dataseries . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 138-145. DOI: 10.5220/0002517601380145


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Andreas S. Andreou and Constantinos Leonidou},
title={NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE RELIABILITY Revealing the Nature of Software Failure Dataseries},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={138-145},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002517601380145},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE RELIABILITY Revealing the Nature of Software Failure Dataseries
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - S. Andreou A.
AU - Leonidou C.
PY - 2005
SP - 138
EP - 145
DO - 10.5220/0002517601380145