Software reliability demonstration testing plan based on bayesian theory

For highly reliable software, it is expensive, time consuming or even infeasible to perform reliability testing by traditional Bayesian-based software reliability demonstration testing plan. Meanwhile, when determining the prior distribution function, people only consider conjugate prior distribution in order to realize the calculation in mathematics but ignores the characteristics of highly reliable software. To address this problem, by introducing the construction method of multilayer prior distribution function into the software reliability demonstration testing plan, this paper put forward a new Bayesian software reliability demonstration testing plan with zero-failure data, which can be used for highly reliable software reliability demonstration testing. Finally through examples, it illustrated the superiority of the method.