The Preprocessing Method for Software Reliability Failure Data

Abstract:

The software reliability failure data is the foundation of the software reliability’s quantitative evaluation based on the failure data, and it has an important influence on the accuracy of reliability evaluation. But there are always noises in the original software reliability failure data and make the reliability evaluation accuracy affected. This paper put forward the collecting method of reliability failure data and data preprocessing method including data cleaning and data analysis method, which based on the analysis of the importance and the source of failure data in the software reliability testing and the classification of software failure data. Finally through an example, it displayed the reduction of data noises and the promotion of data quality which produced by the preprocessing methods.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 634-638)
• Pages: 3998-4003
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.634-638.3998
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Qiu Ying Li, Hui Qi Zhang
• Keywords: Data Cleaning, Data Noise, Failure Data, Preprocessing Method, Software Reliability

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