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ENRE 732 - Software Reliability (3 sem. hrs)

Topics covered include: Designing software reliability, initiatives and standards on software reliability, inherent characteristics, of software which determine reliability, types of software errors, software reliability models for prediction and for assessment software reliability data analysis, automating tools for software reliability and real time software reliability, The concepts are applied during laboratory experiments.

Course Syllabus

• Software Reliability Modeling

• Markovian Models

• Description of Specific Models

• Parameter Estimation

• Comparison of Software Reliability Models

• Calendar Time Modeling

• Failure Adjustment for Evolving Programs

• Fault Seeding Model

• Nelson's Model

• State of the Art

References

[1] Musa,J., Iannino, A., & Okumoto K., Software Reliability - Measurement, Prediction, Application, Series in Software Engineering and Technology, McGraw Hill, 1987

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