Architecture-based reliability models for the software reliability evaluation are tested and verified in this paper. To analyze the failure behavior and the relationship between software modules precisely, the architecture-based models are classified as a composite type and a hierarchy type according to the different evaluation methods. Then, how to determine the software architecture and to divide the software models is disccussed and the estimation methods and processes for software reliability and transferring probalilities between the softwares are given. A control software for a ground target is analyzed and verified,results indicate that the assessing value of composite and hierarchical models are 0.972 and 0.969,respectively,which is closed to the actual reliability of 0.938. The method can provide a references for the implementation of architecture-based software reliability evaluation.