Q. What is the difference between bottom-up testing and top-down testing?

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Q. What are some of the applications of software reliability data?

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Q. What is one of the major problems with testing software systems?

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Q. What is the starting point for the statistical models of software reliability?

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Q. What is the difference between faults and failures in software systems?

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Q. What is the goal of most test techniques?

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Q. What does reliability mean in the context of the software testing?

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Q. What is the definition of reliability in the context of software systems?

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Q. What is the difference between execution time and calendar time in the context of software reliability?

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Q. What are some factors that can affect the failure behavior of a program?

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Q. What is the reason for the uncertainty in the expected time of software failure?

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Q. What is the purpose of modeling subsequent failures as a stochastic process?

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Q. What is the meaning of non-homogeneous Poisson process?

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Q. What is the relationship between failure intensity function and the number of failures observed?

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Q. What is the basic execution time model (BM)?

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Q. What is the difference between the basic execution time model (BM) and the logarithmic Poisson execution time model (LPM)?

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Q. How many parameters does the BM model have?

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Q. What is the definition of operational profile?

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Q. What is the shape of the failure intensity curve in case of a strong non-uniform operational profile?

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Q. What is the relationship between the failure intensity and mean failures in both BM and LPM models?

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