Software reliability is one of the main factors to measure the quality of software. Since software errors cause spectacular failures in some cases, we need to measure the reliability factor to determine the quality of software product, predict reliability in the future, and use it for planning resources needed to fix failures. Software reliability models are applicable tools to analyze software in order to evaluate the reliability of software. During the past twenty five years, more than fifty different models have been proposed for estimating software reliability but many of software practitioners do not know how to utilize these models to evaluate their products. In this paper we will present a survey on different models of software reliability and their characteristics.

Reliability Prediction, Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process, Failure Intensity

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