A Framework for Reliability Assessment of Software Components

Speaker: Rakesh Shukla (co-authors: Paul Strooper and David Carrington)

When: 10:00, Thursday, 13 May, 2004

Venue: 78-420

In this seminar we present a conceptual framework for the reliability
assessment of software components that incorporates test case execution and
output evaluation. Determining an operational profile and test output
evaluation are two difficult and important problems that must be addressed
in such a framework. Determining an operational profile is difficult,
because it requires anticipating the future use of the component. An
expected result is needed for each test case to evaluate the test result and
a test oracle is used to generate these expected results. The framework
combines statistical testing and test oracles implemented as self-checking
versions of the implementations. The framework is illustrated using two
examples that were chosen to identify the issues that must be addressed to
provide tool support for the framework.
 

Hospitality: Speaker (by default)

Contact: Prof Paul Bailes (SSE seminar co-ordinator) (p.bailes@epsa.uq.edu.au)

SSE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~sse/Seminars.html