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Abstract
The day-to-day operation of our society is increasingly more dependent on software-based systems and tolerance to failures of such systems is decreasing. Software engineering is not only expected to help deliver a software product of required functionality on time and within cost, it is also expected to help satisfy certain quality criteria. The most prominent one is reliability. Software reliability engineering (SRE) is the applied science of predicting, measuring, and managing the reliability of software-based systems to maximize customer satisfaction. This talk first provides general information about the nature of SRE and how it relates to software process. After an introduction to the basic issues in software reliability testing, there is extensive discussion of reliability growth and its application to software development, as well as some of the more widely known software reliability growth models. We will further focus on the assessment of reliability in software systems. Methods for conducting software reliability growth testing are discussed; along with some existing SRE tools will be introduced. These SRE tools can greatly help to support the analysis and modeling activities. In this talk, participants will learn both the basic techniques for software reliability testing and the use of various statistical methods for effectively analyzing the data gathered by software reliability tests.
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