Software Reliability Models for Practical Applications

Abstract

This report presents the results of the first phase of the ongoing EG&G Idaho, Inc., Software Reliability Research Program. The program is studying the existing software reliability mc:lels and proposes a state-of-the-art software reliability model that is relevant to the nuclear reactor control environment. This report consists of three parts: (1) summaries of the literature review of existing software reliability and fault tolerant software reliability models and their related issues, (2) proposed technique for saitware reliability enhancement, and (3) general discussion and future research. The development of this proposed state-of-the-art software reliability model will be performed in the second phase. iii