Title: Improved EM algorithm in software reliability growth models

Authors: D. Sudharson; D. Prabha

Addresses: Department of CSE, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India ' Department of CSE, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India

Abstract: The important issue in software reliability management includes evaluation, measurement and prediction about errors in the model. In critical applications the requirement of software reliability is considered as important issues as the low reliability decreases the application performance. Several factors that affects the reliability such as consistency, test coverage, complexity, operational realism, etc. In this complexity leads to faults in the model as it is also related to reliability so that once we start to develop and design the application complexity must take into an account. In delivering some high reliability software products these above factors must be included so that the expectation about product to the user community increases. This research work describes about an efficient model for identifying the faults in the software products using improved EM algorithm using Gaussian function. The improved EM function includes k-means algorithm together to perform the task.

Keywords: fault identification; EM algorithm; k-means algorithm; Gaussian function.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPT.2020.109662

International Journal of Powertrains, 2020 Vol.9 No.3, pp.186 - 199

Received: 13 Sep 2019
Accepted: 03 Dec 2019
Published online: 18 Sep 2020 *

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