Software Reliability Techniques for Real-World Applications

✍ Scribed by Roger K. Youree

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Series: Quality and Reliability Engineering Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY TECHNIQUES FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY TECHNIQUES FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS

Authoritative resource providing step-by-step guidance for producing reliable software to be tailored for specific projects

Software Reliability Techniques for Real-World Applications is a practical, up to date, go-to source that can be referenced repeatedly to efficiently prevent software defects, find and correct defects if they occur, and create a higher level of confidence in software products. From content development to software support and maintenance, the author creates a depiction of each phase in a project such as design and coding, operation and maintenance, management, product production, and concept development and describes the activities and products needed for each.

Software Reliability Techniques for Real-World Applications introduces clear ways to understand each process of software reliability and explains how it can be managed effectively and reliably. The book is supported by a plethora of detailed examples and systematic approaches, covering analogies between hardware and software reliability to ensure a clear understanding. Overall, this book helps readers create a higher level of confidence in software products.

In Software Reliability Techniques for Real-World Applications, readers will find specific information on:

• Defects, including where defects enter the project system, effects, detection, and causes of defects, and how to handle defects
• Project phases, including concept development and planning, requirements and interfaces, design and coding, and integration, verification, and validation
• Roadmap and practical guidelines, including at the start of a project, as a member of an organization, and how to handle troubled projects
• Techniques, including an introduction to techniques in general, plus techniques by organization (systems engineering, software, and reliability engineering)

Software Reliability Techniques for Real-World Applications is a practical text on software reliability, providing over sixty-five different techniques and step-by-step guidance for producing reliable software. It is an essential and complete resource on the subject for software developers, software maintainers, and producers of software.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Series Editor’s Foreword by Dr. Andre Kleyner
Acronyms
Glossary
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Description of the Problem
1.2 Implications for Software Reliability
References
Chapter 2 Understanding Defects
2.1 Where Defects Enter the Project System
2.2 Effects of Defects
2.3 Detection of Defects
2.4 Causes of Defects
References
Chapter 3 Handling Defects
3.1 Strategy for Handling Defects
3.2 Objectives
3.3 Plan
3.4 Implementation, Monitoring, and Feedback
3.5 Analogies Between Hardware and Software Reliability Engineering
References
Chapter 4 Project Phases
4.1 Introduction to Project Phases
4.2 Concept Development and Planning
4.2.1 Description of the CDP Phase
4.2.2 Defects Typical for the CDP Phase
4.2.3 Techniques and Processes for the CDP Phase
4.2.4 Metrics for the CDP Phase
4.3 Requirements and Interfaces
4.3.1 Description of the Requirements and Interfaces Phase
4.3.2 Defects Typical for the Requirements and Interfaces Phase
4.3.3 Techniques and Processes for the Requirements and Interfaces Phase
4.3.4 Metrics for the Requirements and Interfaces Phase
4.4 Design and Coding
4.4.1 Description of the DC Phase
4.4.2 Defects Typical for the DC Phase
4.4.3 Techniques and Processes for the DC Phase
4.4.4 Metrics for the DC Phase
4.5 Integration, Verification, and Validation
4.5.1 Description of the IV&V Phase
4.5.2 Defects Typical for the IV&V Phase
4.5.3 Techniques and Processes for the IV&V Phase
4.5.4 Metrics for the IV&V Phase
4.6 Product Production and Release
4.6.1 Description of the Product Production and Release Phase
4.6.2 Defects Typical for the Product Production and Release Phase
4.6.3 Techniques and Processes for the Product Production and Release Phase
4.6.4 Metrics for the Product Production and Release Phase
4.7 Operation and Maintenance
4.7.1 Description of the Operation and Maintenance Phase
4.7.2 Defects Typical for the OM Phase
4.7.3 Techniques and Processes for the OM Phase
4.7.4 Metrics for the OM Phase
4.8 Management
4.8.1 Description of Management
4.8.2 Defects Typical for Management
4.8.3 Techniques and Processes for Management
4.8.4 Metrics for Management
References
Chapter 5 Roadmap and Practical Guidelines
5.1 Summary and Roadmap
5.1.1 Start of a Project
5.1.2 As a Member of an Organization
5.1.3 Troubled Projects
5.2 Guidelines
References
Chapter 6 Techniques
6.1 Introduction to the Techniques
6.2 Techniques for Systems Engineering
6.3 Techniques for Software
6.4 Techniques for Reliability Engineering
6.5 Project‐Wide Techniques and Techniques for Quality Assurance
References
Index
EULA