Practical software reliability engineering with the Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool (SFRAT)

Vidhyashree Nagaraju; Venkateswaran Shekar; Joshua Steakelum; Melanie Luperon; Ying Shi; Lance Fiondella

SoftwareX (Jul 2019)

Practical software reliability engineering with the Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool (SFRAT)

Vidhyashree Nagaraju,
Venkateswaran Shekar,
Joshua Steakelum,
Melanie Luperon,
Ying Shi,
Lance Fiondella

Affiliations

Vidhyashree Nagaraju: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 02747, USA
Venkateswaran Shekar: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 02747, USA
Joshua Steakelum: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 02747, USA
Melanie Luperon: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 02747, USA
Ying Shi: Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
Lance Fiondella: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 02747, USA; Corresponding author.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10

Abstract

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Many large software projects struggle to achieve their reliability targets. Software reliability growth models quantify reliability from failure data collected during software testing. This paper presents the Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool (SFRAT), which implements several software reliability growth models as a free and open source application. The open source nature of the tool enables users to integrate the methods into their organization’s workflow and researchers to contribute additional statistical methods. The tool is presented in the context of a NASA project. Keywords: Software reliability engineering, Software reliability growth model, Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool, Open source, R programming language, GitHub

Published in SoftwareX

ISSN: 2352-7110 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Mathematics: Instruments and machines: Electronic computers. Computer science: Computer software
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