Research on Software Dependability Testing Profile in Internet Environment

Abstract

In Internet environment, software needs to be tested sufficiently before it is considered dependable. The operational profile based testing is an efficient way for both the reliability testing and the security testing. In practice, the two kinds of testing are often carried out separately to validate the dependability of the software, but it is resources consuming to develop the operational profile and security intrusion profile. In this paper, the feasibilities and the benefits of the idea of taking the dependability testing are given. Since the testing profile is often different from the operational profile with the influence of the security testing, a description method of the testing profile is needed. A brief analysis of the description of operational profile is made, and on the base of the extended operational profile, the method to describe the dependability testing profile is proposed.