Early component-based reliability assessment using UML based software models

In the last decade, software has grown in complexity and size, while development timelines have diminished. As a result, component-based software engineering is becoming routine. Component-based software reliability assessment combines the architecture of the system with the reliability of the components to obtain the system reliability. This allows developers to produce a reliable system and testers to focus on the vulnerable areas.;This thesis discusses a tool developed to implement the methodology previously created for early reliability assessment of component-based systems. The tool, Early Component-based Reliability Assessment (ECRA), uses Rational Rose Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams to predict the reliability of component-based software. ECRA provides the user with an easy interface to annotate the UML diagrams and uses a Bayesian algorithm to predict the system reliability. This thesis presents the methodology of ECRA, the steps taken to develop it, and its applications.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2002

Author dc:creator

• Smith, William Black, V

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bojan Cukic.

• Computer science
• Electrical engineering

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/1291

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-2294