Usage profile construction technique for generation of software reliability test data

  • Jun Ai*
  • , Minyan Lu
  • , Lian Ruan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Software reliability test is one of the important tasks in software reliability engineering. The failure data collected during the software reliability test can be used to evaluate and validate software reliability. The test data are generated according to the practical usage of the software in software reliability test. Based on the analysis of the traditional usage profile (UP), i.e. operation profile is not applicable to many real-time embedded software, a software usage profile in network graph form is presented, which is an extension to operational profile. A systematic way of constructing usage profile is developed which can then be used to generate operation sequences for real time software reliability test. The construction method is applicable to both real-time and none real-time software.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7-9+45
JournalJisuanji Gongcheng/Computer Engineering
Volume32
Issue number22
StatePublished - 20 Nov 2006

Keywords

  • Operation profile
  • Reliability
  • Software
  • Software test
  • Usage profile

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