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A software change-point is testing-time when behavior of the software failure-occurrence time interval notably changes due to a change of testing-environment during testing-activities. Such phenomenon is often observed in an actual software testing-phase, and influences accuracy of reliability assessment based on a software reliability growth model. This paper discusses software reliability growth modeling with the influence of the change-point by using the environmental factors. Then, we discuss optimal problem for estimating optimal change-point and software shipping-time simultaneously from the point of view of software development management.
The authors would like to thank Dr. Takaji Fujiwara, Business Cube & Partners, Inc., for his invaluable comments.
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Inoue, S., Yamada, S. (2010). Change-Point Modeling with an Environmental Factor for Software Reliability Assessment and Its Application. In: Tomar, G.S., Chang, RS., Gervasi, O., Kim, Th., Bandyopadhyay, S.K. (eds) Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology. AST 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13346-6_10
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