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Reliability is one of the most relevant software quality attributes. The literature offers a variety of mathematical models - namely, software reliability growth models (SRGMs) - to estimate the reliability of a software product at a given time, as well as to predict the reliability that will be achieved as testing activities progress. One of the typical assumptions of SRGMs is the immediate debugging of detected faults. In reality, the impact of the debugging process cannot be neglected at all. This paper reports the results of a real-world case-study in which we analyze the debugging process of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, and study its impact on SRGM-based reliability estimation and prediction.
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Cinque, M., Gaiani, C., De Stradis, D., Pecchia, A., Pietrantuono, R., Russo, S. (2014). On the Impact of Debugging on Software Reliability Growth Analysis: A Case Study. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8583. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09156-3_33
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