Artificial Neural Network Applications for Software Reliability Prediction

This book provides a starting point for software professionals to apply artificial neural networks for software reliability prediction without having analyst capability and expertise in various ANN architectures and their optimization.

Artificial neural network (ANN) has proven to be a universal approximator for any non-linear continuous function with arbitrary accuracy. This book presents how to apply ANN to measure various software reliability indicators: number of failures in a given time, time between successive failures, fault-prone modules and development efforts. The application of machine learning algorithm i.e. artificial neural networks application in software reliability prediction during testing phase as well as early phases of software development process are presented. Applications of artificial neural network for the above purposes are discussed with experimental results in this book so that practitioners can easily use ANN models for predicting software reliability indicators.

Manjubala Bisi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science, Warangal, Telengana, India. She received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in Reliability Engineering in 2015. Her research interests include software reliability modelling, artificial neural networks and soft computing techniques.

Neeraj Kumar Goyal is currently an Associate Professor in Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He received his PhD from IIT Kharagpur in Reliability Engineering in 2006. His major areas of research are network /system reliability and software reliability. He has completed various research and consultancy projects for various organizations, e.g. DRDO, NPCIL, Vodafone, ECIL etc. He has contributed research papers to refereed international journals and conference proceedings.