Software Reliability
State of the Art Report 14:2
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1986
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Editors: A. Bendell, P Mellor
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 0 4 4 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 2 8 6 - 8
Software Reliability reviews some fundamental issues of software reliability as well as the techniques, models, and metrics used to predict the reliability of software. Topics… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSoftware Reliability reviews some fundamental issues of software reliability as well as the techniques, models, and metrics used to predict the reliability of software. Topics covered include fault avoidance, fault removal, and fault tolerance, along with statistical methods for the objective assessment of predictive accuracy. Development cost models and life-cycle cost models are also discussed. This book is divided into eight sections and begins with a chapter on adaptive modeling used to predict software reliability, followed by a discussion on failure rate in software reliability growth models. The next chapter deals with methods for predicting and estimating software reliability, with emphasis on their strengths and weaknesses. The reader is methodically introduced to formal inspection in software development; the effects of product design, program structure, development methods, and the environments of product testing and use on product reliability; and types of software metrics in relation to reliability. The remaining chapters explore the ways in which software engineers have sought to achieve software reliability through testing; problems and standards in software reliability data collection; and applications of time series models to software reliability analysis. This monograph will be of interest to software engineers and designers.
Editor's Foreword
Publisher's Note
Invited Papers
1 Adaptive Models
2 Stochastic Treatment of the Failure Rate in Software Reliability Growth Models
3 Software Reliability Models
4 Inspection Data
5 Program and Process Property Models
6 Relaxation of the Common Failure Rate Assumption in Modeling Software Reliability
7 A framework for Modeling Software Reliability
8 Types of Metric
9 Software Reliability Modeling - Prospects and Perspective
10 Testing for the Achievement of Software Reliability
11 Metrics in Practice
12 Software Development Cost Models
13 Software Reliability Data Collection: Problems and Standards
14 A Non-parametric Approach to Software Reliability, Using Complete Monotonicity
15 Applications of Time Series Models to Software Reliability
16 An Exploratory Approach to Software Reliability Measurement
17 Proportional Hazards Modeling of Software Failure Data
Invited Paper References
Analysis
1 Introduction
Software Reliability: Basic Concepts, the Why and Wherefore
History of Software Reliability Modeling
2 Achievement of Software Reliability
Overview and Management
Formal Methods
Fault Tolerance, Testing and Other Means of Achieving Reliability
Hardware/Software Systems
3 Software Reliability Models
Introduction to Models
Description of Individual Models
A Unified Approach, Comparison of Models and Criticisms
4 Relationship to Software Metrics
5 Costs
Development Cost Models
Software Life-cycle Cost Models
6 Recent Developments in Modeling
7 Data and Data Problems
8 Current Research Initiatives
Analysis References
Bibliography
An Annotated Bibliography of Software Reliability
Index
Subject and Contributor Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1986
- No. of pages (eBook): 480
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483120447
- eBook ISBN: 9781483152868
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A. Bendell
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Head of Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research Department, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, UKRead Software Reliability on ScienceDirect