ABSTRACT

Software reliability analysis has been an active research area since the beginning of the seventies. There are a number of models suggested and studied. However, none of them has been successfully applied. The main reason is that the models are theoretical and in practice the software testing does not coincide with the assumptions used in the models. In this paper we, by applying a general model to real data, give some insights into the practical problems. Some general topics in software reliability modelling will be discussed.