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

产品描述：该奖项是为了支持一个合作研究项目，涉及华盛顿，华盛顿特区的乔治华盛顿大学（GWU）管理科学系的Refik Soyer博士，和土耳其伊斯坦布尔博阿齐奇大学（BU）工业工程系的苏莱曼·奥泽基奇博士。 所提出的研究的目的是提高软件可靠性的最新水平，特别是那些密切相关的软件测试。 该研究涉及故障模型的开发，考虑操作配置文件描述的环境中使用的软件。 这些模型基于反映环境动态性质的随机过程。 该研究还涉及这些模型的分析和开发最佳的软件测试策略的使用。 这些模式将有不同程度的复杂性，并将需要以计算机为基础的技术来实施。 特别是，在确定最佳的软件发布时间，决策问题的连续性，使计算机密集的解决方案和蒙特-卡罗为基础的技术是不可避免的。 因此，拟议的工作将涉及开发这样的方法，以实现这些模型在最佳的软件测试。 范围：这个奖项是为了资助美国私人侦探的旅行， 土耳其私家侦探以及来自GWU的第三位科学家，Singpurwalla博士，运筹学和统计学教授。 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。 该奖项允许两个具有互补技能的团队共同解决具有广泛应用的高技术产品生产中的问题。 如果成功的话，其结果将有一些应用程序，可能对软件业产生重大利益。 该项目还涉及在两国合作研究中培训一名研究生。 该奖项由国际项目部和设计、制造和工业创新部共同资助。

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.