Software reliability is an important aspect of software quality. And achieving reliability is the need of today’s global competition. Estimation and prediction are the ways to analyze software reliability. Software reliability growth model is used to estimate the reliability through mathematical expression and it also used to interpret software failures as a random process. This paper describes...

Reliability is always important in all systems but sometimes it is more important than other quality attributes, especially in mission critical systems where the severity of consequence resulting from failure is very high. Software reliability engineering is focused on comprehensive techniques for developing reliable software and for proper assessment and improvement of reliability. Reliability...

A majority of mission-critical or safety-critical systems are complex computer-controlled systems, which are increasingly relying on software to provide added functionality. Although improved design techniques and development methodologies have reduced the software engineering cycle time, the complexity of software design and analysis has increased. The probabilistic assessment of software safe...

One of the motivations for stipulating software architectures explicitly is the use of high intensity structural design information for improved control and prediction of software system quality attributes. Gradually software applications are mounting more complex and with more stress on reuse. The focus of this paper is to provide an outline for the state of the art of Component Based Systems ...

For a software system, there are two clear methods to achieve a target reliability. One is to increase the reliability of a given software to the desired level by spending more resources in testing, and the other is to use multiversion software to increase the reliability. In this paper we propose an approach based on software reliability models, to analyze the cost eeectiveness of multiversion...

Although many approaches for architecturebased reliability estimation exist, these approaches are typically limited to certain classes or exclusively concentrate on software reliability, neglecting the influence of hardware resources, component reliability, component replica and software deployment. In this paper, a reliability estimation model based on software architecture (SA) is presented. ...

Internet software is an emerging software paradigm. Traditional evaluation methods for software reliability are no longer applicable because of the open and dynamic characteristics of the Internet software. In order to evaluate its reliability accurately, there must be a dynamic and open reliability evaluation approach. This paper presents the collection approach of the reliability-related data...

This article explores the critical factors and issues that impede the performance of software reliability modeling science. The literature review indicates that software reliability models have not delivered the desirable deliverables that they are intended to realize. The current work suggests that the reasons for such performance incompetence of the software reliability modeling are attribute...

Traditional system reliability efforts have failed to focus on software reliability. To remedy this, the authors propose a method that uses descriptive analyses, trend analyses, and reliability models to control testing activities, evaluate software reliability, and plan maintenance. uring the development of a software system, the supplier must efficiently monitor the development activities; co...

Software reliability growth model is one of the fundamental techniques to assess software reliability quantitatively. A number of testing-effort functions for modeling software reliability based on the nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) have been proposed in the past decades. Although these models are quite helpful for the software testing, we still need to put more testing-effort into softw...