Software Reliability and Testing (Practitioners) [Paperback]

Hoang Pham (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0818668520 | ISBN-13: 978-0818668524 | Publication Date: June 30, 1995 | Edition: 1

This tutorial presents 14 papers that provide an overview of software reliability models, testing techniques, and applications. The book is targeted toward design engineers software engineers, researchers, computer scientists, technical managers and students wishing to conduct research or update themselves in the field of software reliability and testing.

The papers on software reliability describe applications of software reliability growth modeling to software systems, investigate the relationship between program complexity measures and program errors, and explore the difficulty in accurately modeling software reliability. The remaining papers present new models that are useful in estimating the reliability of software systems and deal with the cost-reliability-optimal software release policies in software systems.

The papers on software testing investigate the relationship between reliability and testing, discuss safety arguments and the role of software and system reliability, and describe the use of an operational profile in testing a large-scale industrial software system for estimating software. The remaining papers present new models useful in testing software systems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr; 1 edition (June 30, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0818668520
• ISBN-13: 978-0818668524
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,101,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gold mine of SQA and reliability ideas and techniques, June 13, 2001

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This review is from: Software Reliability and Testing (Practitioners) (Paperback)

This book is a collection of 14 essays on software quality and testing that has been compiled and edited by Dr. Hoang Pham. The material is more suited for academic, R&D and advanced software quality assurance professionals, and is highly technical in nature. Dr. Pham is one of the top names in software reliability and quality. His credentials as author, contributor or editor of over 50 articles and 18 books, and his forward-thinking research ensures that the essays in this book represents solid material. Although this compilation of essays was published in 1995 they are still applicable and are an excellent source of material for researchers and advanced practitioners.

The essays are divided among two main topics: (1) software reliability and (2) theoretical testing and assurance techniques.

Essay titles that focus on reliability are: Realistic Assumptions for Software Reliability Models, Predicting Software Development Errors Using Software Complexity Metrics, The Infeasibility of Quantifying the Reliability of Life-Critical Real-Time Software, Reliability Analysis of Large Software Systems: Defect Data Modeling, A Micro Software Reliability Model for Prediction and Test Apportionment, and Optimization Models for Selection of Programs Considering Cost & Reliability.

The essays that focus on testing and assurance techniques are: Software Reliability Measurement in Imperfect Debugging Environment and its Application, Are We Testing for True Reliability?, Safety Arguments, Software and System Reliability, Application of Software Reliability Modeling to Product Quality and Test Process, Some New Models of Software Testing with Performance Comparisons, Software Fault Content and Reliability Estimations for Telecommunication Systems, Adapting, Correcting, and Perfecting Software Estimates: A Maintenance Metaphor, and Enhanced Availability of Transaction Oriented Systems using Failure Tests.

Each essay is an in-depth monograph on its topic. The essays that I personally thought were highlights of this book were Predicting Software Development Errors Using Software Complexity Metrics, Adapting, Correcting, and Perfecting Software Estimates: A Maintenance Metaphor, and Enhanced Availability of Transaction Oriented Systems using Failure Tests. From each of these I learned some interesting techniques that were directly applicable to applications and service delivery from QA and support points of view that could be incorporated into real-life processes.

Do not let the age of this book deter you - it's as applicable to reliability and quality challenges we face in 2001 as it was when written in 1995. If you are among the target audience I cited above this will prove to be a valuable resource, and a gold mine of advanced ideas on reliability and quality.