INCORPORATING TESTING EFFORT INTO SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL WITH TIME VARYING LEARNING FACTORS

ABSTRACT Software testing is an important phase in software development. Many resources are consumed during the software testing. The goal of software testing is to identify the errors and then rectify the those errors. Error correction process can increase the quality of the software. During software testing testers uses resources like test case and testing time to detect the errors are termed as software effort. Software testing is continuous learning process where a testers are fully learn about error before removal. the learning and experience are two terms which influences the testing more. So in this process we integrated the software reliability growth model with testing effort and learning capacity of testers. parameters are estimated with standard procedure and result are compared with previous results and our proposed model fits good the real time datasets. Keywords: Software Reliability, Testing Effort, Software Testing, Testers learning, Non-homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP), Software Cost