Study of Software Release Time Determination with Reliability Growth Models

Abstract

Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) is defined as the quantitative study of newlinethe operational behavior of software-based systems with respect to user requirements newlineconcerning reliability. A primary objective of software reliability engineering is to help the newlineengineers, managers or users of the software, to take precise decisions on the reliability newlinegoals to be achieved, confirm the achievement of target reliability and deliver as per the newlinecustomer requirements. The secondary objective is to focus attention on software reliability newlineand make everyone more concretely aware of it. Better decisions can help projects in many newlineways, especially on cost effectiveness during the life cycle of the software development. newlineSoftware reliability engineering works by quantitatively characterizing two things, newlineexpected use and desired major quality attributes of the system. newlineReliability of Software Systems in safety critical applications such as nuclear newlinepower plants and space shuttles is quite critical, since loss of mission can lead to newlinecatastrophic results. Software packages are huge in size and are mostly complex. So newlineidentifying all the faults and correcting them may not be possible newline