Reliability estimation of object oriented design a systematic review

Abstract: Over the past decades, software quality attributes have been extensively studied. In compare, fewer attentions have been paid to the field of software reliability. The size and complexity of computer systems have grown during the past decades in a very impressive manner. Complexity is a major factor of software reliability which degrades the performance of reliability. High complexity makes the system unreliable. There are a number of approaches to estimate reliability, several of which have been discussed in this paper. Software reliability can be increased by controlling Object-Oriented (OO) constructs such as coupling, cohesion, inheritance and polymorphism. This review paper presents the results of a systematic literature review conducted to gather facts on software reliability estimation of object oriented design. In this review paper, our contribution is to discover the available recognized comprehensive and an absolute model or frameworks for measuring the reliability of object oriented design at an early phase of development life cycle.

Keywords: Software reliability, reliability measurement, Software metrics, Object Oriented Design, Software Quality.