SOME DETERMINISTIC RELIABILITY GROWTH CURVES FOR SOFTWARE ERROR DETECTION: APPROXIMATION AND MODELING ASPECTS

In the context of reliability engineering, the Gompertz curve (or deterministic curve model) is, for example, used to assess the reliability growth phenomenon of hardware products. In this paper we study the one–sided Hausdorff approximation of the Heaviside step function hr(t) by deterministic curve model and find an expression for the error of the best approximation. We propose a new transmuted deterministic software reliability model. Some comparisons are made.

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