Entropy Based Software Reliability Analysis of Multi-Version Open Source Software

• Published in: IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 44; no. 12; pp. 1207 - 1223
• Main Authors: Singh, V.B., Sharma, Meera, Pham, Hoang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2018; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: cobb-douglas; Computer bugs; Entropy; feature improvement; Fixing; Freeware; Growth models; new feature; Open source software; Optimization; Poisson density functions; Public domain; release time problem; Reliability analysis; Software product lines; Software reliability; software repositories; Source code

The number of issues fixed in the current release of the software is one of the factors which decides the next release of the software. The source code files get changed during fixing of these issues. The uncertainty arises due to these changes is quantified using entropy based measures. We develope...