Inference for the software reliability using asymmetric los fimctions:a hierarchical bayes approach

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose a hierarchical Bayes approach and an appropriate loss function to perform a Bayesian analysis of the total number of software failures denoted by N. It is shown that the Bayes procedure is more stable than the maximum likelihood procedure and a stopping rule for debugging the software is suggested via the LIN EX loss function.

Keywords:

• Debugging
• lin ex loss function
• stopping rule