Predicting Release Time Based on Generalized Software Reliability Model (GSRM)

Abstract

Development environments have changed drastically, development periods are shorter than ever and the number of team members has increased. Especially in open source software (OSS), a large number of developers contribute to OSS. OSS has difficulties in predicting or deciding when it will be released. In order to assess recent software developments, we proposed a generalized software reliability model (GSRM) based on a stochastic process, and compared GSRM with other models. In this paper, we focus on the release dates of OSS and the growth of faults (issues).