Assessing the dynamic strength of software systems using interference analysis

The concept of dynamic strength is closely related to reliability: the probability that a software system does not encounter a latent fault during execution. Dynamic strength is assessed by analyzing the interference between the execution profile, a probability density for system size, and the composite static strength distributions. Composite static strength is the sum of the relative software complexity metrics of each of the system's software modules. Composite static strength is a density function with size as the variate. Latent faults occur in the region of interference when the execution distribution exceeds a critical level of the strength distribution. An important relationship between the execution profile and strength distributions is characterized by the return period function.<
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