A MODIFIED GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS

Chao-Jung Hsu,  Chin-Yu Huang,  Tsan-Yuan Chen

National Tsing Hua University

cyhuang@cs.nthu.edu.tw


Abstract

In this paper, we propose a modified genetic algorithm (MGA) with calibrating fitness functions, weighted bit mutation, and rebuilding mechanism for the parameter estimation of software reliability growth models (SRGMs). An example using a real failure data is given to demonstrate the performance of proposed method. Experimental result shows that MGA is effective for estimating the parameters of SRGM.