Software Reliability Engineering– A Review

Abstract

Software Reliability has a very important contribution towards software quality. Software reliability is the probability of the failure free operation of a computer program after a specific period of time. It is always required to test the reliability of a system to know its operations with 100% perfection. Whether it is a manufacturing system, or a software or a medicine even a human being. This article provides a general idea for observing the reliability of a software and a suggestive algorithm for its improvement by incorporating software engineering methodologies. This algorithm may help in right selection of model for improving software reliability.

Fuzzy qualitative evaluation of reliability of object oriented software system

“…R. Dadhich, B. mathur [3] discussed on the aspect oriented system to measure reliability cross cutting factors in a distributed application, implementation improved the quality of the software causes higher productivity, cost saving and better understanding using fuzzy logic approach. P. Nagar and B. Thankachan [4] discussed software reliability in the area of manufacturing system, software and in medicine etc, which include software reliability in a business context as software functional quality and software structural quality. Discussion on some development previous ( waterfall model, prototyping, RAD, Sprial Development, Rational Unified Process etc ) and advance methodologies (AGILE) are presented.…”

Analysis and Assessment of Existing Software Quality Models to Predict the Reliability of Component-Based Software

“…Nagar and Thankachan [32] discussed traditional development models like Waterfall, spiral, and prototyping as well as advanced models like Agile before proposing an algorithm for identifying an appropriate model for software reliability improvement. According to the author, they cited an example of medicine and manufacturing to illustrate reliability in terms of structural and functional quality.…”