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A GENERAL SOFTWARE TESTING MODEL INVOLVING OPERATIONAL PROFILES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2002

Süleyman Özekici ,
I. Kuban Altinel  and
Ebru Angün
Süleyman Özekici
Affiliation:
Botgaziçi University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey, E-mail: [email protected]
I. Kuban Altinel
Affiliation:
Botgaziçi University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey, E-mail: [email protected]
Ebru Angün
Affiliation:
Botgaziçi University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

An operational profile describes, in a probabilistic way, how a software is utilized by its users. It makes the testing procedure more realistic and efficient. We consider a model where the software is tested sequentially in all of the operations that it is designed to perform. The stochastic and deterministic model parameters involving costs and failures all depend on the operations. In particular, the failure process generated by each fault is quite general and debugging is not necessarily perfect. Our aim is to find the optimal testing durations in all of the operations in order to minimize the total expected cost. This problem leads to an interesting nonlinear programming formulation that can be solved using well-known procedures in convex optimization.

Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 519 - 533
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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