This document provides an overview of a presentation on software reliability, safety, and testing for industrial applications. The agenda includes introductions on the need for reliable and safe software, challenges and issues, system reliability and failure distribution, hardware vs. software reliability, software reliability prediction models, and software safety and functional safety. The presentation also discusses Dr. Ajeet Kumar's background and credentials, research contributions, invited lectures, and publications.
Here is an example operations list for a medical enteral pump system:
1. Power on pump
2. Navigate main menu
1. Set patient details
2. Set feeding program
1. Select feeding mode (continuous, intermittent)
2. Set feeding rate
3. Set feeding duration
3. Start/stop feeding
4. View feeding history
5. Adjust alarm settings
3. Acknowledge/silence alarms
4. Power off pump
This list was developed by walking through the menu structure and identifying the key operations a user could perform with the pump system. The numbering indicates sub-operations under main operations.
The document discusses software reliability and reliability growth models. It defines software reliability and differentiates it from hardware reliability. It also describes some commonly used software reliability growth models like Musa's basic and logarithmic models. These models make assumptions about fault removal over time to predict how failure rates will change as testing progresses. The key challenges with models are uncertainty and accurately estimating their parameters.
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This document provides an overview of a seminar on software reliability modeling. The seminar covers topics such as what software reliability is, software failure mechanisms, measuring software reliability, software reliability models, and statistical testing. It discusses concepts like the difference between hardware and software reliability curves. It also summarizes various software reliability models and challenges in software reliability modeling.
Aliaa delivered a session in the topic of “Test planning” using a new technique of delivering content through games and knowledge sharing instead of instructive technique. The session covered all test planning activities including defining test items, risk assessment techniques, testing strategies, planning for testing resources, testing scheduling, and test deliverables and the final test plan documents.
The session introduced to quality team at ITWorx (June , 2013)
Software testing is an important phase of the software development process that evaluates the functionality and quality of a software application. It involves executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Some key points:
- Software testing is needed to identify defects, ensure customer satisfaction, and deliver high quality products with lower maintenance costs.
- It is important for different stakeholders like developers, testers, managers, and end users to work together throughout the testing process.
- There are various types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and different methodologies like manual and automated testing. Proper documentation is also important.
- Testing helps improve the overall quality of software but can never prove that there
The document discusses software reliability, defining it as the probability of failure-free operation over a specified time period or the failure intensity measure. It covers factors that influence reliability like faults, development processes, and operational profiles. The chapter also presents two definitions of reliability and discusses applications of reliability metrics. Finally, it introduces two reliability models - the basic model and logarithmic model - that describe the relationship between failure intensity and time with assumptions.
Here is an example operations list for a medical enteral pump system:
1. Power on pump
2. Navigate main menu
1. Set patient details
2. Set feeding program
1. Select feeding mode (continuous, intermittent)
2. Set feeding rate
3. Set feeding duration
3. Start/stop feeding
4. View feeding history
5. Adjust alarm settings
3. Acknowledge/silence alarms
4. Power off pump
This list was developed by walking through the menu structure and identifying the key operations a user could perform with the pump system. The numbering indicates sub-operations under main operations.
The document discusses software reliability and reliability growth models. It defines software reliability and differentiates it from hardware reliability. It also describes some commonly used software reliability growth models like Musa's basic and logarithmic models. These models make assumptions about fault removal over time to predict how failure rates will change as testing progresses. The key challenges with models are uncertainty and accurately estimating their parameters.
A presentation on software testing importance , types, and levels,...
This presentation contains videos, it may be unplayable on slideshare and need to download
This document provides an overview of a seminar on software reliability modeling. The seminar covers topics such as what software reliability is, software failure mechanisms, measuring software reliability, software reliability models, and statistical testing. It discusses concepts like the difference between hardware and software reliability curves. It also summarizes various software reliability models and challenges in software reliability modeling.
Aliaa delivered a session in the topic of “Test planning” using a new technique of delivering content through games and knowledge sharing instead of instructive technique. The session covered all test planning activities including defining test items, risk assessment techniques, testing strategies, planning for testing resources, testing scheduling, and test deliverables and the final test plan documents.
The session introduced to quality team at ITWorx (June , 2013)
Software testing is an important phase of the software development process that evaluates the functionality and quality of a software application. It involves executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Some key points:
- Software testing is needed to identify defects, ensure customer satisfaction, and deliver high quality products with lower maintenance costs.
- It is important for different stakeholders like developers, testers, managers, and end users to work together throughout the testing process.
- There are various types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and different methodologies like manual and automated testing. Proper documentation is also important.
- Testing helps improve the overall quality of software but can never prove that there
The document discusses software reliability, defining it as the probability of failure-free operation over a specified time period or the failure intensity measure. It covers factors that influence reliability like faults, development processes, and operational profiles. The chapter also presents two definitions of reliability and discusses applications of reliability metrics. Finally, it introduces two reliability models - the basic model and logarithmic model - that describe the relationship between failure intensity and time with assumptions.
Logistic regression in Machine LearningKuppusamy P
Logistic regression is a predictive analysis algorithm that can be used for classification problems. It estimates the probabilities of different classes using the logistic function, which outputs values between 0 and 1. Logistic regression transforms its output using the sigmoid function to return a probability value. It is used for problems like email spam detection, fraud detection, and tumor classification. The independent variables should be independent of each other and the dependent variable must be categorical. Gradient descent is used to minimize the loss function and optimize the model parameters during training.
This document discusses missing data imputation. It notes that missing data appears as "NA", blank spaces, or other placeholders in a dataset. There are two main approaches to handling missing data - deleting rows with missing values or using imputation methods to replace missing values. Common imputation methods for continuous data include replacing with the mean, median, or predicted value from regression. For categorical data, the most frequent category or predicted value from a classifier may be used. The MICE and missForest packages are popular tools for imputing missing values in R.
This document outlines a course on system and network administration. The course aims to teach students how to create and manage users and groups, manage disks and files, manage a network, backup and restore system and user data, and remotely administer a network. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics such as Windows and Linux network concepts, user administration, resource monitoring and management, security, and remote administration. References for further reading are also provided.
The document discusses exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques in R. It explains that EDA involves analyzing data using visual methods to discover patterns. Common EDA techniques in R include descriptive statistics, histograms, bar plots, scatter plots, and line graphs. Tools like R and Python are useful for EDA due to their data visualization capabilities. The document also provides code examples for creating various graphs in R.
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This document discusses different types of software requirements. It outlines functional requirements that specify system behaviors and non-functional requirements that specify qualities like usability, reliability, and performance. Domain requirements capture characteristics specific to the application area. Inverse requirements specify what a system should not do. Design and implementation constraints provide guidelines for system development. Metrics are important for quantifying non-functional requirements so they can be objectively tested. Requirements should be explored from different perspectives and categorized to best inform system design and development.
This document discusses testing off-the-shelf (COTS) components. It defines COTS components as independently developed and reusable parts that are selected from a repository and assembled to build software systems. While COTS components reduce development costs and time, they present challenges to testing due to being treated as black boxes without access to requirements or development processes. The document outlines types of COTS component testing, including black-box testing of inputs/outputs, fault injection to evaluate error handling, operational testing in integrated systems, and interface propagation analysis to observe impacts of faults between components.
This document discusses software metrics that can be used to measure process and project attributes. It defines key terms like measurement, measure, metric and indicator. It describes different types of metrics like process metrics, project metrics, size-oriented metrics, function-oriented metrics and quality metrics. It also discusses concepts like defect removal efficiency and redefining defect removal efficiency to measure effectiveness of quality assurance activities.
Abstract: This PDSG workshop introduces basic concepts of splitting a dataset for training a model in machine learning. Concepts covered are training, test and validation data, serial and random splitting, data imbalance and k-fold cross validation.
Level: Fundamental
Requirements: No prior programming or statistics knowledge required.
This document discusses key aspects of software design, including:
1. It defines software design and engineering as the process of translating requirements into a blueprint for constructing software through iterative design activities like data, architectural, interface, and component design.
2. It outlines design principles like modularity, abstraction, and refinement which help partition software into components and separate conceptual representations from implementation details.
3. It emphasizes that software architecture defines the overall structure and relationships between major elements of software, and is important for achieving conceptual integrity in software systems.
Software Reliability is the probability of failure-free software operation for a specified period of time in a specified environment. Software Reliability is also an important factor affecting system reliability. ... The high complexity of software is the major contributing factor of Software Reliability problems.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and definitions. It discusses key topics such as software quality, testing methods like static and dynamic testing, testing levels from unit to acceptance testing, and testing types including functional, non-functional, regression and security testing. The document is intended as an introduction to software testing principles and terminology.
1. The document discusses different types of software testing including manual testing, automation testing, black-box testing, white-box testing, grey-box testing, and different levels of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and acceptance testing.
2. It provides details on when each type of testing is used and their objectives such as finding defects, ensuring quality, and meeting requirements.
3. The key types of testing covered include functional testing, which has sub-types like unit, integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing, and non-functional testing.
This document discusses statistical methods for comparing means, including t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA). It explains how t-tests can be used to compare two means or paired samples, and how ANOVA can compare two or more means. Key assumptions and procedures are outlined for one-sample t-tests, paired t-tests, independent t-tests with equal and unequal variances, and one-way between-subjects ANOVAs.
Software reliability is defined as the probability of failure-free operation of software over a specified time period and environment. Key factors influencing reliability include fault count, which is impacted by code size/complexity and development processes, and operational profile, which describes how users operate the system. Software reliability methodologies aim to improve dependability through fault avoidance, tolerance, removal, and forecasting, with the latter using models to predict reliability mathematically based on factors like time between failures or failure counts.
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What is Linear Regression?
What is Logistic Regression?
Linear Regression Use Case
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Software testing involves checking if actual results match expected results to ensure a system is defect-free. It is important because software bugs can be expensive or dangerous, as demonstrated by examples where software failures caused monetary losses, human injuries or deaths. There are different types of testing like functional, non-functional, and maintenance testing, as well as different testing strategies like black box, white box, unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. Test cases are documents used to verify requirements through test data, preconditions, expected results, and post conditions for a specific test scenario.
This document provides an overview of logistic regression analysis. It introduces the need for logistic regression when the dependent variable is binary. Key concepts covered include the logistic regression model, interpreting the beta coefficients, assessing goodness of fit using various tests and metrics, and an example of fitting a logistic regression line to predict burger purchasing based on a customer's age. Students are instructed to use statistical software to estimate a logistic regression model and interpret the results.
Creating a successful continuous testing environment by Eran KinsbrunerQA or the Highway
This document discusses continuous testing and provides an overview of key concepts. It defines continuous testing as executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to rapidly obtain feedback on release candidates. The benefits of continuous testing discussed include fast feedback, continuous visibility, and testing that matches different skill levels. It also covers topics like test authoring best practices, key performance indicators for continuous testing, and the potential future role of machine learning. Continuous testing is presented as a way to mature an organization's path toward DevOps practices.
Reliability Improvement with PSP of Web-Based Software ApplicationsCSEIJJournal
In diverse industrial and academic environments, the quality of the software has been evaluated using
different analytic studies. The contribution of the present work is focused on the development of a
methodology in order to improve the evaluation and analysis of the reliability of web-based software
applications. The Personal Software Process (PSP) was introduced in our methodology for improving the
quality of the process and the product. The Evaluation + Improvement (Ei) process is performed in our
methodology to evaluate and improve the quality of the software system. We tested our methodology in a
web-based software system and used statistical modeling theory for the analysis and evaluation of the
reliability. The behavior of the system under ideal conditions was evaluated and compared against the
operation of the system executing under real conditions. The results obtained demonstrated the
effectiveness and applicability of our methodology
Logistic regression in Machine LearningKuppusamy P
Logistic regression is a predictive analysis algorithm that can be used for classification problems. It estimates the probabilities of different classes using the logistic function, which outputs values between 0 and 1. Logistic regression transforms its output using the sigmoid function to return a probability value. It is used for problems like email spam detection, fraud detection, and tumor classification. The independent variables should be independent of each other and the dependent variable must be categorical. Gradient descent is used to minimize the loss function and optimize the model parameters during training.
This document discusses missing data imputation. It notes that missing data appears as "NA", blank spaces, or other placeholders in a dataset. There are two main approaches to handling missing data - deleting rows with missing values or using imputation methods to replace missing values. Common imputation methods for continuous data include replacing with the mean, median, or predicted value from regression. For categorical data, the most frequent category or predicted value from a classifier may be used. The MICE and missForest packages are popular tools for imputing missing values in R.
This document outlines a course on system and network administration. The course aims to teach students how to create and manage users and groups, manage disks and files, manage a network, backup and restore system and user data, and remotely administer a network. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics such as Windows and Linux network concepts, user administration, resource monitoring and management, security, and remote administration. References for further reading are also provided.
The document discusses exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques in R. It explains that EDA involves analyzing data using visual methods to discover patterns. Common EDA techniques in R include descriptive statistics, histograms, bar plots, scatter plots, and line graphs. Tools like R and Python are useful for EDA due to their data visualization capabilities. The document also provides code examples for creating various graphs in R.
what is user support system???
This file will provide detailed overview about the user support system and how it will works in human computer interaction and why we need it .....
This document discusses different types of software requirements. It outlines functional requirements that specify system behaviors and non-functional requirements that specify qualities like usability, reliability, and performance. Domain requirements capture characteristics specific to the application area. Inverse requirements specify what a system should not do. Design and implementation constraints provide guidelines for system development. Metrics are important for quantifying non-functional requirements so they can be objectively tested. Requirements should be explored from different perspectives and categorized to best inform system design and development.
This document discusses testing off-the-shelf (COTS) components. It defines COTS components as independently developed and reusable parts that are selected from a repository and assembled to build software systems. While COTS components reduce development costs and time, they present challenges to testing due to being treated as black boxes without access to requirements or development processes. The document outlines types of COTS component testing, including black-box testing of inputs/outputs, fault injection to evaluate error handling, operational testing in integrated systems, and interface propagation analysis to observe impacts of faults between components.
This document discusses software metrics that can be used to measure process and project attributes. It defines key terms like measurement, measure, metric and indicator. It describes different types of metrics like process metrics, project metrics, size-oriented metrics, function-oriented metrics and quality metrics. It also discusses concepts like defect removal efficiency and redefining defect removal efficiency to measure effectiveness of quality assurance activities.
Abstract: This PDSG workshop introduces basic concepts of splitting a dataset for training a model in machine learning. Concepts covered are training, test and validation data, serial and random splitting, data imbalance and k-fold cross validation.
Level: Fundamental
Requirements: No prior programming or statistics knowledge required.
This document discusses key aspects of software design, including:
1. It defines software design and engineering as the process of translating requirements into a blueprint for constructing software through iterative design activities like data, architectural, interface, and component design.
2. It outlines design principles like modularity, abstraction, and refinement which help partition software into components and separate conceptual representations from implementation details.
3. It emphasizes that software architecture defines the overall structure and relationships between major elements of software, and is important for achieving conceptual integrity in software systems.
Software Reliability is the probability of failure-free software operation for a specified period of time in a specified environment. Software Reliability is also an important factor affecting system reliability. ... The high complexity of software is the major contributing factor of Software Reliability problems.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and definitions. It discusses key topics such as software quality, testing methods like static and dynamic testing, testing levels from unit to acceptance testing, and testing types including functional, non-functional, regression and security testing. The document is intended as an introduction to software testing principles and terminology.
1. The document discusses different types of software testing including manual testing, automation testing, black-box testing, white-box testing, grey-box testing, and different levels of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and acceptance testing.
2. It provides details on when each type of testing is used and their objectives such as finding defects, ensuring quality, and meeting requirements.
3. The key types of testing covered include functional testing, which has sub-types like unit, integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing, and non-functional testing.
This document discusses statistical methods for comparing means, including t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA). It explains how t-tests can be used to compare two means or paired samples, and how ANOVA can compare two or more means. Key assumptions and procedures are outlined for one-sample t-tests, paired t-tests, independent t-tests with equal and unequal variances, and one-way between-subjects ANOVAs.
Software reliability is defined as the probability of failure-free operation of software over a specified time period and environment. Key factors influencing reliability include fault count, which is impacted by code size/complexity and development processes, and operational profile, which describes how users operate the system. Software reliability methodologies aim to improve dependability through fault avoidance, tolerance, removal, and forecasting, with the latter using models to predict reliability mathematically based on factors like time between failures or failure counts.
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This Edureka PPT on Linear Regression Vs Logistic Regression covers the basic concepts of linear and logistic models. The following topics are covered in this session:
Types of Machine Learning
Regression Vs Classification
What is Linear Regression?
What is Logistic Regression?
Linear Regression Use Case
Logistic Regression Use Case
Linear Regression Vs Logistic Regression
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Software testing involves checking if actual results match expected results to ensure a system is defect-free. It is important because software bugs can be expensive or dangerous, as demonstrated by examples where software failures caused monetary losses, human injuries or deaths. There are different types of testing like functional, non-functional, and maintenance testing, as well as different testing strategies like black box, white box, unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. Test cases are documents used to verify requirements through test data, preconditions, expected results, and post conditions for a specific test scenario.
This document provides an overview of logistic regression analysis. It introduces the need for logistic regression when the dependent variable is binary. Key concepts covered include the logistic regression model, interpreting the beta coefficients, assessing goodness of fit using various tests and metrics, and an example of fitting a logistic regression line to predict burger purchasing based on a customer's age. Students are instructed to use statistical software to estimate a logistic regression model and interpret the results.
Creating a successful continuous testing environment by Eran KinsbrunerQA or the Highway
This document discusses continuous testing and provides an overview of key concepts. It defines continuous testing as executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to rapidly obtain feedback on release candidates. The benefits of continuous testing discussed include fast feedback, continuous visibility, and testing that matches different skill levels. It also covers topics like test authoring best practices, key performance indicators for continuous testing, and the potential future role of machine learning. Continuous testing is presented as a way to mature an organization's path toward DevOps practices.
Reliability Improvement with PSP of Web-Based Software ApplicationsCSEIJJournal
In diverse industrial and academic environments, the quality of the software has been evaluated using
different analytic studies. The contribution of the present work is focused on the development of a
methodology in order to improve the evaluation and analysis of the reliability of web-based software
applications. The Personal Software Process (PSP) was introduced in our methodology for improving the
quality of the process and the product. The Evaluation + Improvement (Ei) process is performed in our
methodology to evaluate and improve the quality of the software system. We tested our methodology in a
web-based software system and used statistical modeling theory for the analysis and evaluation of the
reliability. The behavior of the system under ideal conditions was evaluated and compared against the
operation of the system executing under real conditions. The results obtained demonstrated the
effectiveness and applicability of our methodology
IRJET- A Study on Software Reliability ModelsIRJET Journal
This document summarizes various software reliability models and metrics for evaluating reliability. It discusses existing reliability models, their pros and cons in terms of effort required and whether defect counts are finite. Commonly used metrics to measure reliability are also outlined, including product, project management, process, and failure metrics. The conclusion states that while many models use machine learning, reliability prediction could be further optimized by combining machine learning and fuzzy logic. Future work is proposed to focus on using these techniques to predict reliability in a more effective way.
Information hiding based on optimization technique for Encrypted ImagesIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper on reversible data hiding in encrypted images using an optimization technique. The paper proposes an algorithm that first identifies the area of interest in an encrypted image and then uses a Bat Algorithm to find noisy pixel coordinates for embedding text data. Any remaining data is embedded in the image border areas. The research aims to securely protect embedded data against attacks while maintaining efficiency. It discusses related work on separable reversible data hiding techniques and the need for reversible data hiding in encrypted images to maintain confidentiality while allowing lossless image recovery.
The panel discussion will focus on the :
Trends of Big Data, Cloud, IOT and other key areas.
Software Engineering, Agile , Continuous Delivery and Quality Engineering best practices.
Reimagining Quality through usage of the right Process, frameworks, tools and overall Quality Management System.
Parameter Estimation of GOEL-OKUMOTO Model by Comparing ACO with MLE MethodIRJET Journal
The document presents a comparison of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) method and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) method for parameter estimation of the Goel-Okumoto software reliability growth model. It describes using the ACO and MLE methods to estimate unknown parameters of the Goel-Okumoto model based on ungrouped time domain failure data. The key parameters estimated are a, which represents the expected total number of failures, and b, which represents the failure detection rate. The document aims to determine which of these two parameter estimation methods can best identify failures at early stages of software reliability monitoring.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It defines software engineering as the systematic application of engineering principles to software development, maintenance, and operation. The document discusses key questions about software engineering, including what it is, how it differs from computer science and systems engineering, the "software crisis" involving cost overruns and defects, and attributes of good software like maintainability and dependability. It also covers software engineering processes, methods, costs, and challenges.
Reliable software in a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) e...Ann Marie Neufelder
When the Waterfall software development model was first published it was not the intent to have multi-year development cycles. However, once this very bad practice became institutionalized it was difficult to change. The Agile Manifesto helped to change that only to result in convenient myths about continuous integration/continuous development. Contrary to popular belief having better and more reliable software is one of the key goals of CI/CD. The shorter cycles, daily reviews and code a little test a little approach has been correlated to more reliable software for decades. While CI/CD does minimize the risk of the long development cycles, it doesn't mitigate every risk. For example, it won't fix software engineers who don't understand the industry or product. It won't fix an insufficient level of rigor in testing. It won't fix designing/testing for success while ignoring designing/testing for failure. The primary purpose of CI/CD was to have data so that future sprints/releases could be more successful. Yet many software organizations fail to collect, analyze or learn from the previous sprints. Engineering leaders often have unrealistic expectations that Agile fixes everything. Even the best CI/CD environments can still experience failure from overlooking one key risk or overlooking one key failure mode.
The IEEE 1633 provides practical guidance for developing reliable software and making key decisions that include reliability. There are qualitative and quantitative tasks starting from the beginning of the program until deployment. These methods are applicable for agile and incremental development environments. In fact, they work better in an agile environment. This document has practical step by step instructions for how to identify failure modes and root cause, identify risks that are often overlooked, predict defects before the code is even written, plan staffing levels for testing and support, evaluate reliability during testing, and make a release decision. Examples of the techniques are provided. This document was written by people who have real world experience in making software more reliable while still on time and within budget. It covers software failure modes effects analysis, software fault trees, software defect root cause analysis, reliability predictions, defect density predictions, software reliability benchmarking, software reliability growth estimation, developing a reliability driven test suite, allocating reliability to software, evaluating the portion of the total system failures that will be caused by the software, and managing software for reliability. The working group is chaired by Ann Marie Neufelder who is the global leader in reliable software. The document will be updated in 2023 for the Common Defect Enumeration and relationship with DevSecOps.
This document discusses challenges in software reliability and proposes approaches to improve reliability predictions and measurements. It addresses issues like:
1. The difficulty of modeling software reliability due to the complexity and interdependence of software failures, unlike independent hardware failures.
2. Challenges with software reliability growth models (SRGMs) due to unrealistic assumptions and lack of operational profile data.
3. The need for consistent, unified definitions of software metrics and measurements to better assess reliability.
4. Questions around how well testing effectiveness metrics like code coverage actually correlate with detecting defects and reliability. The relationship between code coverage and reliability is not clearly causal.
Improving software reliability predictions requires addressing these issues by developing more realistic
This document discusses software reliability engineering and proposes future directions for improving reliability prediction and assessment. It begins with an introduction to software reliability and complexity. It then discusses challenges with current reliability modeling approaches and issues with metrics/measurements. Testing effectiveness and code coverage are also examined. The document proposes methodologies for improving reliability assessment, including focusing on software architectures/components, linking testing and reliability metrics, and collecting industrial data. Overall, it argues that current techniques could be enhanced by incorporating additional factors like code coverage and collecting failure data earlier. Improved reliability prediction would benefit both industry and research.
IRJET-A Review of Testing Technology in Web Application SystemIRJET Journal
This document provides an overview of testing technologies for web application systems. It discusses that software testing plays an important role in the software development lifecycle to identify issues. There are two main categories of testing - manual testing and automated testing. Manual testing involves human testers executing test cases while automated testing uses tools and scripts to execute test cases. The document also outlines some common bottlenecks in testing web applications, such as regression testing and load testing, and how automated versus manual testing is suited to address different types of testing.
A Combined Approach of Software Metrics and Software Fault Analysis to Estima...IOSR Journals
The document presents a software fault prediction model that uses reliability relevant software metrics and a fuzzy inference system. It proposes predicting fault density at each phase of development using relevant metrics for that phase. Requirements metrics like complexity, stability and reviews are used to predict fault density after requirements. Design, coding and testing metrics are similarly used to predict fault densities after their respective phases. The model aims to enable early identification of quality issues and optimal resource allocation to improve reliability. MATLAB is used to define fault parameters, categories, fuzzy rules and analyze results. The goal is a multistage fault prediction model for more reliable software delivery.
A Survey of Software Reliability factorIOSR Journals
This document discusses factors that affect software reliability and approaches to improving software reliability. It first defines software reliability and lists some key factors that influence reliability, such as software defects, requirements analysis, cost, size estimation, and how reliability is measured. Requirements analysis factors include feasibility studies, surveys, interviews, and testing. Cost is affected by the programmer's knowledge, software architecture, and resource allocation. The document then outlines two approaches to enhancing software reliability: 1) incorporating fault removal efficiency into reliability growth models by accounting for imperfect debugging and new faults introduced during testing, and 2) analyzing software metrics from object-oriented programs to better measure reliability.
This document discusses software testing principles and concepts. It defines key terms like validation, verification, defects, failures, and metrics. It outlines 11 testing principles like testing being a creative task and test results needing meticulous inspection. The roles of testers are discussed in collaborating with other teams. Defect classes are defined at different stages and types of defects are provided. Quality factors, process maturity models, and defect prevention strategies are also summarized.
Application Security Testing for Software Engineers: An approach to build sof...Michael Hidalgo
This talk was presented at the 7th WCSQ World Congress for Software Quality in Lima, Perú on Wednesday, 22nd March 2017.
Writing secure code certainly is not an easy endeavor. In the book titled “Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Proven Techniques for Building Secure Applications in a Networked World (Developer Best Practices)” authors Howard and LeBlanc talk about the so called attacker’s advantage and the defenders dilemma and they put into perspective the fact that developers (identified as defenders) must build better quality software because attackers have the advantage.
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2. ➔ Introduction: The Need of Reliable and Safe Software
➔ Challenges and Issue
➔ System Reliability and Failure Distribution
➔ Hardware Reliability Vs Software Reliability
➔ Software Reliability- Reliability Prediction Models
➔ Software Safety- Functional Safety
➔ Summary
Agenda
3. ▪ Ph.D. (Reliability Engineering): IIT Kharagpur, India.
▪ M.Tech (Software Engineering): MNNIT, Allahabad, India.
Education Current Role & Credentials
Project Contribution and Earlier Affiliations
System Assurance &
RAMS Expert
India
Malaysia
Indonesia
Germany
France
UK
USA
Japan
Qatar
Australia
UAE
HS2 Phase-1 London (UK)
GFR Melbourne (Australia)
MRTS/RRTS (India)
Agra-Kanpur (India)
R151 (Singapore)
Etihad Rail (Abu Dhabi)
Dubai Metro (Dubai)
SWR (UK)
Expo link 2020 (Dubai)
DFCC (India)
LTR 3 (Malaysia)
Jakarta LRT (Indonesia)
Network Rail (UK)
Jakarta MRT (Indonesia)
Delhi Metro Line-8 (India)
Doha Metro (Qatar)
Sydney Metro (Australia)
Hyderabad Metro (India)
Invensys Rail (UK/USA)
About me
@1000 hrs.
Invited Lectures
@30
Research
Articles
@200
Citation Index
Book on
Software Reliability
4. ▪ 2015: Survey of Algorithms on Maximum Clique Problem,
International Journal, India
▪ 2014: Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis for Social Media using
Fuzzy Logic, International conference, India.
▪ 2014: RAMS Management for a Complex Railway System: A
Case Study, International Symposium, India.
▪ 2013: Safety Analysis of Automatic Door Operation for Metro
Train: A Case, Springer, International conference, India.
▪ 2012: Cost Effective Reliability Centric Validation Model for
Automotive ECUs, IEEE Explore.
▪ 2012: Successive Software Reliability Growth Model: A Practical
Approach, International Symposium, India.
▪ 2012: A Fuzzy Model for Early Software Quality Prediction and
Module Ranking, International Journal, India
▪ 2011: Early fault detection model using integrated and cost-
effective test case prioritization, International Journal, India.
▪ 2010: Test Effort Optimization by Prediction and Ranking of Fault-
prone Software Module, IEEE Xplore.
▪ 2010: Fault Prediction Model by Fuzzy Profile Development of
Reliability Relevant Software Metrics, International Journal, USA.
▪ 2010: Predicting Fault-prone Software Module Using Data Mining
Technique and Fuzzy Logic, International Journal, India.
▪ 2010: Modified BUSTRAP: An Optimal BUS TRAvel Planner for
Commuters using Mobile”, International Journal, India.
▪ 2010: Multistage Fault Prediction Model Using Process Level
Software Metrics”, DQM Research Center, Serbia.
▪ 2010: An Early Software Fault Prediction Model using Process
Maturity and Software Metrics, International Journal, India
▪ 2009: A Fuzzy Model for Early Software Fault Prediction using
Process Maturity & Software Metrics, International Journal, India.
▪ 2007: Digitally Signed SMS for Business Transaction
Research Contributions
Research
papers,
articles
and
patent
▪ 2021: Patent: An Artificial Intelligence Based Human
Anomaly Detection System in Public Surveillance
Videos
▪ 2021: Universally domain adaptive algorithm for
sentiment classification using transfer learning approach
▪ 2020: Domain Adaptive Model For Sentiment
Classification Using Deep Learning Approach, India.
▪ 2019: Efficient Topic Level Opinion Mining and
Sentiment Analysis Algorithm using Latent Dirichlet
Allocation Model,
▪ 2019: Efficient Multilevel Polarity Sentiment
Classification Algorithm using Support Vector Machine
and Fuzzy Logic.
▪ 2018: System Assurance, Railway RAMS and
Applicable Standards, Innorail 2018, Lucknow, India
▪ 2018: Pandey A. K., B. Vamshi Krishna, & A. P. Siva
Kumar, Feature based opinion Mining & Sentiment
Analysis using fuzzy logic, Springer Briefs.
▪ 2018: Pandey A. K., B. Vamshi Krishna, & A. P. Siva
Kumar, Topic Model Based Opinion Mining and
Sentiment Analysis, IEEE Conference, India.
▪ 2017: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety
(RAMS) and EMI/EMC for Railway Electrical System;
Proceedings of Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.
▪ 2017: Systems Assurance for Urban Railway Operation,
Seminar on Railway Electrical Systems for LRT/MRT,
Proceedings of Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
▪ 2016: Progressive RAMS Assurance & Management for
Railway Projects, Rail Reliability and Safety Conference,
Mumbai, India
▪ 2015: RAM Apportionment Model for Mass Rapid
Transit Systems, IEEE Explore.
▪ 2015: Software Safety Assurance for Metro Railways,
Business Magazine, Traffic Infra Tech, India.
5. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Need for the Safe and Reliable Software
◆ Software are widely used to control and monitor many applications across the
industries.
◆ Software failures in safety-critical systems can have disastrous consequences such
as loss of financials assets, loss of mission and loss of human lives.
Railways: Signalling failure, Level crossing failure, etc;
Automotive:
Avionics:
Medical Devices:
◆ Demand for higher standards in software quality and reliability is required as
Customer awareness, global market, regulation, legal requirements, etc..
Cost of failure; cost of maintenance, downtime, etc.
6. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Software Reliability: Challenges & Issues
• The challenges:
• Applicability of software keeps on increasing from basic home appliances to safety critical
applications. System Failures due to the software failure are very common now a days.
• Size, complexity and dependency on software based systems are growing.
• Software reliability becomes a challenging objective for both developer as well as user.
• Developer: How to develop fault free software (system)?
• User: How to select a reliable (fault-free) System?
• The issues:
• Software does not wear out (independent of time): how to apply fundamental reliability
principles and method can be applied?
• Only Systematic Failure no Random Failure……..
• No standards failure data (library), getting software failure data……..
• Infinite Failure Mode Type…….
• Testing Challenges: can not be tested exhaustively…..
7. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
System Reliability and Failure Distribution
• System Reliability:
• Hardware Reliability
• Software Reliability
• Human Reliability
A sample of project specific data
Failure cause distribution for Electronic Systems
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Error, Fault (Defect) and Failure
Error
Fault/Defect
Failure
Can lead to
Can lead to
May be
Systematic and/or Random
Systematic and/or Random
Systematic and/or Random
May be
May be
Many Railway accidents, automotive recalls, medical device malfunction are growing list of software failure. In
many cases, these failure are due to the software failure which are the part of system/functions.
9. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Failure Rate and Bath-tub Curve: Hardware Vs. Software
Hardware Bathtub Curve
Software Bathtub Curve
10. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Failure Classification
Failure may be:
• Transient: Occurs only with
certain inputs.
• Permanent: Occurs with all
inputs.
• Recoverable: System can recover
without operator intervention.
• Unrecoverable: Operator
intervention needed to recover
from failure.
• Non-corrupting: Failure does not
corrupt systems.
• Corrupting: Failure corrupts
system state or data.
Fault:
• Defect in system implementationthat
causes the failure when executed.
• Developer oriented view.
Failure:
• Deviation of system behavior when
executed.
• It is user oriented view.
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Hardware Software
Experience wear out. Does not wear out.
Failures are usually preceded by warning and can be
anticipated.
Failures are rarely preceded by warning and can’t be
anticipated.
Failure rate can be DFR/CFR/IFR i.e. bathtub curve. Failure rate does not increase.
Failures are caused by material deterioration, random
failures, design errors, misuse and environment.
Failures are caused by incorrect logic, incorrect statement or
input data.
Hardware repairs restore the original condition. Software repairs establish a new piece of software.
Can be tested exhaustively. Can not be tested exhaustively .
Failures occurs even if they are not used due to material
deterioration.
Failures never occurs if they are not used.
Components can be standardized. Software components can’t be standardized.
Hardware failures are systematic and random. Software failures are always systematic failures
Reliability: Hardware Vs. Software
Note: Software Safety, Software Reliability, and Software Security are different in with respect to the scope & objective.
12. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Software Reliability & Safety: Systematic Failure
Software reliability: probability that a
software system or component to perform
its intended function under the specified
operating conditions over the specified
period of time i.e. failure-free operation.
A software failure is defined as “the
deviation of the program behavior from
requirements,”. Software failure occurs
when faults got executed. Faults are the
error or defects in the software.
Software faults are the root making
software unreliable.
Faults may arise across the various
stages of software development
yielding requirements faults, design
faults, and coding faults.
Insist on systematic
process to develop
a fault free software
Error Fault Failure
13. Generic Software Development Processes
Requirement
Analysis
Initial
Design
Detailed
Design
Final
Design
Coding/
Implementation
Verification and
Testing Install, Use and
Maintenance
CONCEPT
Definition Phase Development Phase Maintenance Phase
Technical & Commercial Regression Testing
Development Testing
As per the Standard Requirements for specific Industry such as Automotive, Railways, Medical Devices, etc.
15. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Software Reliability
• Software Reliability is defined as:
• The probability of failure-free software operation for a specified period of time
(mission time) in a specified environment
• Definition compatible with hardware reliability (failure mechanism differs)
• Cannot be defined objectively.
• Software system is very complex.
• Complex human nature is involved in the development of software.
• Requires operational profile for its definition.
• The operational profile defines the expected pattern of software usage.
• Must consider fault consequences ( for safety applications)
• Not all faults are equally serious.
• System is perceived as more unreliable if there are more serious faults.
16. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Software Reliability Improvement
• Reliability is improved when software faults which occur in the most frequently used
parts of the software are removed.
• Removing x% of software faults will not necessarily lead to an x% reliability
improvement.
• In a study, removing 60% of software defects actually led to a 3% reliability
improvement.
• Removing faults with serious consequences is the most important objective.
• Error prevention
• Fault detection and removal
• Measurements to maximize reliability.
✓ specifically the measures who support the first two activities.
Activities to Improve Software Reliability
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Software Reliability Estimation
• Software reliability estimation determines current software reliability by
applying statistical inferences to the failure data obtained during system
testing or during system operation.
• Purpose of reliability estimation is to determine whether the applied reliability
model is good enough for the current software project.
• There are numerous software reliability estimation models available today.
• Software testing managers use these models to determine time and resources
requirements for software testing.
• Software managers use estimation models to determine a suitable MTTF
objective for delivery as well as resources required for maintaining software.
19. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Some
Useful
Software
Reliability
Models
Jelinski &
Moranda (JM)
Model
Shooman Model
Musa’s Basic
Execution Time
Model
Goel-Okumoto
Model
Schneidewind’s
Model
Hyperexponential
Model
Schick-Wolverton
S-shaped
Reliability Growth
Model
Duane’s Model
Geometric Model
Musa- Okumoto
Logarithmic
Poisson
Littlewood-
Verrall Reliability
Growth Model
21. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
• Safety: freedom from unacceptable risk.
• What is Safety? What are various kind of Safety applicable to Systems?
• Functional Safety, Occupational Safety, Fire-life Safety, Health Environment & Safety (HES), etc.
• Safety-Critical System: are the systems that is intended to achieve, on its own, the necessary level of safety
integrity for the implementation of the required safety functions.
• Safety Integrity: the ability of a safety-related system to achieve its required safety functions under all the
stated conditions and environment and within a stated period of time.
• Safety Integrity Level: a number which indicates the required degree of confidence that a system will meet
its specified safety functions with respect to systematic failures.
• Hazard: a condition that could lead to an accident. Each Hazard shall be characterized for some probability
of occurrence and its associated severity.
• Hazard Analysis: the process of identifying hazards and analysing their causes, and the derivation of
requirements to limit the likelihood and consequences of hazards to a tolerable level. Typical hazard
analysis techniques are PHA, SHA, IHA and O&SHA.
Safety Related Terms (H/W and S/W)
Software Safety is defined as: The probability of mishap-free software operation for a
specified period of time in a specified environment
22. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
• Both H/W & S/W should be developed as per the guidelines provided by the
Standards for the specific SILs ( Safety Integrity Level).
• The concept of SIL (1 to 4) is given by IEC 61508 which the then adopted by
other industries ( Railways, Automotive, Avionics etc..)
• Hardware systems are evaluated for both random and systematic failure.
• Software systems are evaluated for systematic failure.
• Software has no inherent failure rate, only fails systematically and therefore can
be evaluated systematically.
• Software can not be guaranteed to be 100% correct but the errors can be
minimized at various stages of development (Systematically).
• Requirement; Design; Coding; Test, etc.
Functional Safety: Safety Critical Software
23. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
• A functionally safe software is one that responds as expected for every set of inputs.
• During the S/W development faults may be introduced at any stage; testing ensure
their presence, faults not detected during testing remain in the system.
• There is no known way to prove the absence of faults in a complex safety-related
software.
• Many standards such as EN 50128, ISO 26262, DO 178 provides guidelines for
development of Safe and Reliable Software.
• EN 50128 provides guidelines for development of Safe Software for Railways
Systems.
• ISO 26262 provides guidelines for development of Safe Software for Automotive
Industries.
• DO 178 provides guidelines for development of Safe Software for Avionics
Industries.
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Functional Safety for Safety Critical Software
24. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Software in Railways: Safety Critical Application
• Earlier Railway Systems uses electronic
subsystems/components controlled mechanically
or manually.
• For better performance, flexibility and passenger
comfort; things are automated and software
controlled.
Few Years Back
Uses simple electronics subsystems
controlled mechanically or manually.
Now a days almost all the subsystem uses new electronic
control and monitoring system ( software based).
Now
There are a need for a safe and reliable software for other
industries as well. These lists ranges from a general
purpose software to safety critical software.
Automotive- Driverless Vehicles
Avionics
Smart Watches
Smart Phones
Medical Devices.
25. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
• Software bugs surface out under certain input conditions.
• It is not possible to test the system under all possible conditions.
• Example for Railway Signalling System – Interlocking at a 4-line station
• Tracks = 20 to 25; Crossovers = 4 to 6; Signal aspects = 30; Routes = 20
• Total number of conditions = 280
• An accelerated testing of the software for all possible conditions @ 1 per millisecond will take many years
• To ensuring complete software testing; 100% code is to test under all conditions.
• Functional testing does not ensure 100% coverage because many functions have error-
handling code, which can be difficult or impossible to stimulate using a fully integrated
application
Why Functional Testing Isn’t Enough for 100% Coverage
26. Dr. Ajeet Kumar
• System Reliability depends on Reliability of Hardware, Software and Human.
• Software failure causes most of system failure which might impact performance and safety
of the System.
• Majority of safety functions in many industrial applications are implemented and/or
controlled by software.
• Testing are used to ensure the Reliability and Safety of these systems.
• Exhaustive testing of these systems are not possible, therefore, systems must be designed
in such a way to prevent failure or ensure controlled behavior if failures arise .
• Software development must comply to applicable Safety Standards to meet the Safety
Requirements.
➢ So standard process such as EN 50128 for Railways shall be followed to minimize
systematic error in software.
➢ So standard process such as DO 26262 for Automotive shall be followed to minimize
systematic error in software.
➢ So standard process such as DO 178 D for Avionics shall be followed to minimize
systematic error in software.
Summary: Software Reliability & Safety