A Study of When to Release a Software Product from the Perspective of Software Reliability Models

If a software product with a significant number of defects is released too early to users, the software manufacturer will incur post-release costs of fixing the faults. If a product is released too late, the additional development cost and the risk of missing a market window could be substantial. Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) can capture the quantitative aspects of testing and are used to estimate software release time. From a cost-benefit viewpoint, SRGMs aid developers to decide the optimal release time of the software product by providing effective approaches to minimising the expected total software system cost.