Analytical Model for Software Reliability Prediction

Authors

  • Rasha Gaffer M. Helali  Department of Computer Science, University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia

Keywords:

Semantic Metrics, Software Metrics, Software Quality, Syntactic Metrics

Abstract

The big evolution in software field lead to increase the need for existence of high quality quantitative measurements for both syntactic and semantic features. Considering software products in particular, we found that the most existing tools measure syntactical features only – syntactic metrics- that reflect how programs represented in source code, but not what functions that programs define. In this paper, we discuss semantic metrics, which characterize the sets and functions that the programs define; now it would be a useful complement to the vast body of software metrics in use. The results of this study show how semantic metrics can be used as indicator to some factors that affect software reliability.

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2017-02-28

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Volume 3, Issue 1, January-February-2017

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Rasha Gaffer M. Helali, " Analytical Model for Software Reliability Prediction , International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.412-420, January-February-2017.