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Software Reliability

In: OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment

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  • Shigeru Yamada

    (Tottori University)

  • Yoshinobu Tamura

    (Yamaguchi University)

Abstract

In recent years, many computer system failures have been caused by software faults which were introduced during the software development process. This is an inevitable problem since a software system installed in the computer system is an intellectual product consisting of documents and source programs developed by human activities. Then, total quality Management (TQM) is considered to be one of the key technologies to produce more highly reliable software products. In case of TQM for software management, all phase of the development process, i.e. specification, design, coding, and testing, have to be controlled systematically to prevent software fault-introduction as much as possible and to detect the introduced faults in the software system as early as possible. Basically, the concept of TQM means to assure the quality of the intermediate products in each phase to the next phase. Particularly, quality control executed at the testing phase which is the last stage of the software development process is very important. During the testing phase, the product quality and the software performance during the operation phase are evaluated and assured. Concretely, a lot of software faults introduced in the software system through the first three phases of the development process by human activities are detected, corrected, and removed. Figure 1.1 shows a general software development process so-called a water-fall diagram.

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  • Shigeru Yamada & Yoshinobu Tamura, 2016. "Software Reliability," Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, in: OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 1-13, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-3-319-31818-9_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31818-9_1
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