Software reliability growth model with error dependency

Abstract Generally, in a complex software system there may be errors, whose removal is dependent on the previously removed errors and may result in a slowing down of the removal process for a period time. This dependency can be described in different ways. In this paper, we develop an SRGM which takes care of the underlying error dependency in a software system. The SRGM has the built-in flexibility and has been tested on real software error data to show its applicability.