Buying with Exact Confidence
Dalal, S. R. ; Mallows, C. L.
Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 2 (1992) no. 4, p. 752-765 / Harvested from Project Euclid
We derive some results which may be helpful to buyers of software testing for faults, or to buyers of large lots screening for defectives. Suppose that a fixed but unknown number $n$ of faults or defectives remain before testing. In the testing phase they are observed at random times, $X_1, X_2, \cdots, X_n$, which are order statistics corresponding to $n$ i.i.d. random variables. Since testing is usually an ongoing activity, this distribution is typically known. Under this assumption we derive a stopping criterion that guarantees, for any specified level $\alpha$ and integer $m$, that for all $n > m$, with probability exactly $1 - \alpha$, when stopping occurs, the software has no more than $m$ faults remaining. We study various properties of this stopping rule, both finite and asymptotic, and show that it is optimal in a certain sense. We modify a conservative stopping rule proposed by Marcus and Blumenthal to make it exact, and we give some numerical comparisons.
Publié le : 1992-08-14
Classification:  Software testing,  optimal stopping,  sampling inspection,  60G40,  62G30,  62L15,  62N99
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Dalal, S. R.; Mallows, C. L. Buying with Exact Confidence. Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 2 (1992) no. 4, pp.  752-765. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1177005658/