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A new software reliability growth model with testing coverage and uncertainty of operating environments
* 1 , 2 , 3
1  BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India
2  BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa-403726, India
3  Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida-201313, India
Academic Editor: Marjan Mernik

Abstract:

The number of software failures, software reliability, and failure rates can be measured and predicted by the software reliability growth model (SRGM). SRGM is developed and tested in a controlled environment where the operating environment is different. Many SRGMs have developed, assuming that the working and developing environments are the same. In this paper, we have developed a new SRGM incorporating the imperfect debugging and testing coverage function in the presence of a random environment. The proposed model’s parameters are estimated from two real data sets and compared with some existing SRGMs based on five goodness-of-fit criteria. The results show that the proposed model gives better descriptive and predictive performance than the existing model.

Keywords: Non-homogeneous Poisson process; Software reliability growth models; Mean value function; Testing coverage function; Random field environment.
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