2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'05) On a Method for Mending Time to Failure Distributions Yokohama, Japan June 28-July 01 ISBN: 0-7695-2282-3
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DSN.2005.72
Many software reliability growth models assume that the time to next failure may be infinite; i.e., there is a chance that no failure will occur at all. For most software products this is too good to be true even after the testing phase. Moreover, if a non-zero probability is assigned to an infinite time to failure, metrics like the mean time to failure do not exist. In this paper, we try to answer several questions: Under what condition does a model permit an infinite time to next failure? Why do all non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) models of the finite failures category share this property? And is there any transformation mending the time to failure distributions? Indeed, such a transformation exists; it leads to a new family of NHPP models. We also show how the distribution function of the time to first failure can be used for unifying finite failures and infinite failures NHPP models.
Citation:
Michael Grottke, Kishor S. Trivedi, "On a Method for Mending Time to Failure Distributions," dsn, pp.560-569, 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||