Software Reliability Engineering: More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper 2nd Edition [Paperback]

John D. Musa (Author)

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Publication Date: September 17, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1418493872 | ISBN-13: 978-1418493875 | Edition: 2

Software Reliability Engineering is the classic guide to this time-saving practice for the software professional. ACM Software Engineering Notes praised it as: ".an introductory book, a reference, and an application book all compressed in a single volume.The author's experience in reliability engineering is apparent and his expertise is infused in the text." IEEE Computer noted: "Toward software you can depend on.This book illustrates the entire SRE process.An aid to systems engineers, systems architects, developers, and managers." This Second Edition is thoroughly rewritten for the latest SRE practice, enlarged 50%, and polished by thousands of practitioners. Added workshops help you apply what you learn to your project. Frequently asked questions were doubled to more than 700. The step-by-step process summary, software user manual, list of articles of SRE user experience, glossary, background sections, and exercises are all updated, enhanced, and exhaustively indexed. To see the Table of Contents and other details, click on http://members.aol.com/JohnDMusa/book.htm

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• Paperback: 632 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse; 2 edition (September 17, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1418493872
• ISBN-13: 978-1418493875
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.4 inches
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Contents

Acknowledgments

How to use this book

Chapter 1 - Problem, Process, and Product

1.1 Core material

1.1.1 Problem and solution

1.1.1.1 What is the software practitioner's biggest problem

1.1.1.2 How does software reliability engineering approach it?

1.1.1.3 What's been the experience with SRE?

1.1.2 The software reliability engineering process

1.1.3 Defining the product

1.2-1.6 Exercises, Workshop, Special situations, Background, FAQ

Chapter 2 - Implementing Operational Profiles

2.1 Core material

2.1.1 Developing operational profiles

2.1.1.1 Identifying the initiators of operations

2.1.1.2 Creating the operations list

2.1.1.3 Reviewing the operations list

2.1.1.4 Obtaining occurrence rates

2.1.1.5 Determining occurrence probabilities

2.1.2 Applying operational profiles

2.2-2.6 Exercises, Workshop, Special situations, Background, FAQ

Chapter 3 - Engineering "Just Right" Reliability

3.1 Core material

3.1.1 Defining "failure" for the product

3.1.2 Choosing a common measure for all associated systems

3.1.3 Setting system failure intensity objectives

3.1.3.1 Determining user needs for reliability and availability

3.1.3.2 Determining overall reliability and availability objectives

3.1.3.3 Finding the common failure intensity objective

3.1.4 Determining developed software failure intensity objectives

3.1.5 Engineering software reliability strategies

3.2-3.6 Exercises, Workshop, Special situations, Background, FAQ

Chapter 4 - Preparing for Test

4.1 Core material

4.1.1 Preparing test cases

4.1.1.1 Planning number of new test cases for current release

4.1.1.2 Allocating new test cases

4.1.1.3 Distributing new test cases among new operations

4.1.1.4 Detailing test cases

4.1.2 Preparing test procedures

4.2-4.6 Exercises, Workshop, Special situations, Background, FAQ

Chapter 5 - Executing Test

5.1 Core material

5.1.1 Planning and allocating test time for the current release

5.1.2 Invoking test

5.1.3 Identifying failures

5.1.3.1 Analyzing test output for deviations

5.1.3.2 Determining which deviations are failures

5.1.3.3 Establishing when failures occurred

5.2-5.6 Exercises, Workshop, Special situations, Background, FAQ

Chapter 6 - Guiding Test

6.1 Core material

6.1.1 Tracking reliability growth

6.1.1.1 Estimating failure intensity

6.1.1.2 Using failure intensity patterns to guide test

6.1.2 Certifying reliability

6.2-6.6 Exercises, Workshop, Special situations, Background, FAQ

Chapter 7 - Deploying SRE

7.1 Core material

7.1.1 Persuading your boss, your coworkers, and stakeholders

7.1.2 Executing the deployment

7.1.3 Using a consultant

7.1.3.1 Understanding the consultee's viewpoint

7.1.3.2 Understanding the consultant's viewpoint

7.2-7.6 Exercises, Workshop, Special situations, Background, FAQ

Appendix A - The SRE Process, Step by Step

Appendix B - Glossary

Appendix C - Summary of Useful Formulas

Appendix D - Using CASRE Software

D.1 Core material

D.1.1 Creating the failure data file for CASRE

D.1.2 Executing CASRE

D.1.3 Executing CASRE with Excel to Obtain FI / FIO Plots

D.1.4 Interpreting CASRE results

D.2-D.4 Exercises, Special situations - troubles, FAQ

Appendix E - Exercise Solutions

Appendix F - User Experiences with SRE

References

Index

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