Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS'01)
A Fast Algorithm to Compute Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the Hypergeometric Software Reliability Model
Hong Kong
December 10-December 11
ISBN: 0-7695-1287-9
We present a fast and exact algorithm to compute maximum likelihood estimates for the number of faults initially contained in a software, using the hypergeometric software reliability model. The algorithm is based on a rigorous mathematical analysis of the growth behavior of the likelihood function for the model. We also clarify the sto chastic process underlying the model and prove a recursion formula which is central for most previous work on the hypergeometric software reliability model.