השוואת שיטות

	מודל אמינות תוכנה	בדיקות חלוקה לשקילות
תחום	הנדסת תוכנה	הנדסת תוכנה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1979	1979
הוגה השיטה	Alok Goel and Kazuhira Okumoto	Glenford Myers
סוג	stochastic model	partitioning strategy
מקור מכונן	Goel, A. L., & Okumoto, K. (1979). Time-dependent error-detection rate model for software reliability and other performance measures. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 28(3), 206–211.	Myers, G. J. (1979). The Art of Software Testing. John Wiley & Sons.
כינויים	reliability growth model, failure rate prediction, SRGM	equivalence partitioning, BVA, boundary value analysis
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	Software reliability models predict the behavior of failure rates during testing and operation, estimating when software achieves required reliability targets. Introduced by Goel and Okumoto (1979), these stochastic models capture how defect discovery declines as testing progresses. Organizations use reliability models to forecast release readiness, estimate testing duration, and validate quality achievement.	Equivalence partitioning divides input domains into equivalence classes—sets of inputs expected to behave identically—then selects test cases from each class. Introduced by Myers (1979), this technique reduces test cases while maintaining effectiveness. Boundary value analysis (BVA) complements partitioning by testing values at partition boundaries where failures often occur.