Software Reliability and Fault-tolerant Systems: An Overview and Perspectives

Abstract

This chapter outlines the basic concepts of software development process, reliability engineering, and data analysis. It also presents some of the existing NHPP software reliability models and their applications. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the results. A generalized software reliability model considering environmental factors is presented and Sections 72.5 and 72.6 discuss briefly the software fault-tolerant concepts and software cost models, respectively.