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A relationship between software coverage metrics and reliability

Author(s) -

Veevers Alan,

Marshall Adam C.

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

software testing, verification and reliability

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1099-1689

pISSN - 0960-0833

DOI - 10.1002/stvr.4370040103

Subject(s) - reliability engineering , computer science , software quality , reliability (semiconductor) , software , software development , engineering , programming language , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics

Software engineers have tacitly assumed that there exists a link between coverage and reliability. An argument is presented which leads to an inverse logarithmic relationship which depends upon the structure of the software and on a parameter called the strength of the coverage metric. The relationship is developed by considering reliability as a function of an idealized coverage metric and then interpreting the result for a range of actual coverage metrics.

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