In diesem Buch werden die wichtigsten empirischen Verfahren für eine Anwendung im Bereich Finance und Accounting und ggf. auch Risk Management dargestellt. Der Fokus liegt auf der durchgängigen konkreten Umsetzung an Anwendungsbeispielen unter Nutzung der frei verfügbaren Statistiksoftware R....

In an environment of intense competition, software upgrades have become the necessity for the survival in software industry. In this paper, the authors propose a discrete Software Reliability Growth Model (SRGM) for the software with successive releases by taking into consideration the realistic...

In software industry, multi release software development process is a latest phenomenon that brings the benefits of newer technologies, while retaining the quality. In this paper, it is assumed that the development of next version or release starts immediately after the launch of the previous...

This article describes how in recent years, models-based software reliability test methods have been a hot topic. In order to summarize the research results of the reliability test models created in recent years, and to find new research hot topics on this basis, two kinds of test models are in...

Many business-oriented software applications are subject to frequent changes in requirements. This paper shows that, ceteris paribus, increases in the volatility of system requirements decrease the reliability of software. Further, systems that exhibit high volatility during the development...

Recent empirical studies of software have shown a strong correlation between change history of files and their fault-proneness. Statistical data analysis techniques, such as regression analysis, have been applied to validate this finding. While these regression-based models show a correlation...

Reviewer: Murray, Peter