U.S.-Turkey Cooperative Research: Testing of Software With an Operational Profile

描述：该奖项是为了支持一项合作研究项目，该项目涉及华盛顿特区乔治·华盛顿大学(GWU)管理科学系的Refik Soyer博士和土耳其伊斯坦布尔Bogazici大学(BU)工业工程系的Suleyman Ozekici博士。建议研究的目的是提高软件可靠性的最新水平，特别是那些与软件测试密切相关的软件可靠性。这项研究涉及开发故障模型，该模型考虑了描述软件使用环境的操作配置文件。这些模型基于反映环境动态性质的随机过程。这项研究还包括对这些模型的分析以及它们在开发最优软件测试策略方面的使用。这些模型将具有不同程度的复杂性，并将需要基于计算机的技术来实施。特别是，在确定最优软件发布时间时，决策问题的序贯性质使得计算机密集解和基于蒙特卡洛的技术不可避免。因此，拟议的工作将涉及开发这样的方法，以在最佳软件测试中实现这些模型。范围：该奖项是为了资助美国私家侦探、土耳其私家侦探和来自华盛顿大学的第三位科学家、运筹学和统计学教授辛普尔瓦拉博士的旅行。此外，GWU的一名教授和一名研究生以及BU的一名教授将参与该项目，但不需要赠款资金。该奖项允许两个技能互补的团队共同努力，解决具有广泛应用的高科技产品生产中的问题。如果结果成功，将会有许多应用程序，可能会给软件行业带来巨大的好处。该项目还包括对一名研究生进行两国合作研究的培训。该奖项由国际项目部和设计、制造和工业创新部联合资助。

Description: This award is to support a cooperative research project involving Dr. Refik Soyer, Department of Management Science at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., and Dr. Suleyman Ozekici, Department of Industrial Engineering at Bogazici University (BU) in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of the proposed research is to enhance the state of the art in software reliability, especially those that are germane to the software testing. The research involves development of failure models that consider operation profiles that describe the environment in which the software is used. These models are based on stochastic processes that reflect the dynamic nature of the environment. The research also involves analysis of these models and their use for developing optimal software testing strategies. The models will have various degrees of complexity and will require computer-based techniques for their implementation. In particular, in determining the optimal software release time, the sequential nature of the decision problem makes computer intensive-solutions and Monte-Carlo based techniques inevitable. Thus the proposed work will involve development of such methodologies to implement these models in optimal software testing. Scope: This award is to fund the travel of the U.S. P.I., the Turkish P.I., and a third scientist from GWU, Dr. Singpurwalla, Professor of Operations Research and Statistics. In addition, a professor and a graduate student at GWU, as well as a professor at BU, will participate in the project, but will not require grant funds. This award allows two teams with complementary skills to work jointly to solve a problem in production of a highly technical product with wide applications. The result, if successful, would have a number of applications with possible significant benefits to the software industry. The project also involves the training of a graduate student in a binational collaborative research. This award is funded jointly by the Division of International Programs and the Division of Design, Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation.