Reliability Models Applied to Mobile Applications

Abstract

Abstract-: Smartphones have become the most used electronic devices. They carried out most of the functionalities of desktops, allowing various useful applications that suit the users' needs. Therefore, instead of the operator, the user has become the number one controller of the device and its applications and thus its reliability becomes an emergent need. We aim to investigate and evaluate the efficacy of Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) when applied to Smartphone application failure data and check whether they achieve the same success as in the desktop/laptop area. We selected three of the most used SRGMs and applied them to three different Smartphone applications. None of the selected models were able to account for the data satisfactorily. Their failure is traced back to the specific features of mobile applications compared to desktop applications. Thus, a suitable model for Smartphone applications is still needed to improve their reliability.

Can We Rely on Smartphone Applications?

“…Due to space limitation, only Skype V1 will be presented from the versions we studied. The full and detailed results are found in [3].…”

“…The results of the estimated total number of defects were evaluated using the Magnitude of Relative Error (MRE). These statistical indicators are defined in [3]. Table 1 gives a compilation of all model parameters (a, b) along with the predicted or estimated (time of maximum failure rate) and the expected proportion ( ( = )/ ) of encountered failures by .…”

“…The applications that have been chosen are Skype, Vtok, and a private Windows phone application. The relevant equations of these models are given in [3]. We present the procedure devised to collect the failure data for each application followed by the results of the application of the chosen SRGM to failure data for each application, and, finally, an analysis of the observed results.…”

“…Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) are among the tools that deal with the reliability of software applications; they have been constructed and successfully applied to desktop (classic/standard) applications. In recent work [2], we thoroughly investigated the applicability of these SRGMs to the mobile area. We applied three of the most used SRGMs to the collected failure data of three smartphone applications; our main conclusion was that none of the selected models was able to account for the observed failure data satisfactorily.…”

In Need of a Domain-Specific Language Modeling Notation for Smartphone Applications with Portable Capability

“…Several research aimed to examine software quality in smartphone platforms in term of quality testing models such as [6], or non-functional quality attributes such as smartphone usability [7][8], smartphone reusability [9], or smartphone reliability [10].…”