On the determination of optimum software release time

Abstract

One of the important applications of software reliability models is the determination of software release time. The author presents some software release policies and discusses the problem of determination of optimum test time. Both reliability requirements and cost models are considered in obtaining specific release policies. It is noted that acceptable failure intensity should be used as a reliability goal and optimum release policy should be based on sequential approach. Some other interesting software release policies are also reviewed.<>