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Using In-Process Testing Metrics to Estimate Software Reliability: A Feasibility Study

In industry, information on field reliability of a product becomes available too late in the software development process to affordably guide any corrective actions. A step towards remediation of this problem lies in the ability to provide an early estimation of software reliability. This paper presents a suite of in-process metrics that leverages the software testing effort to provide (1) an assessment of potential software field reliability in early software development phases and (2) the identification of software elements that may be fault-prone. A structured feasibility study conducted at North Carolina State University motivated further research.