Software reliability models and assessment techniques review: Classification issues

This paper proposes the principle of classifier construction for software reliability models and assessment techniques. The classifier is built using a facet-hierarchical approach and allows systematizing scientific publications in the field of software reliability. The available publications for more than 50 years have been analyzed and classified by use of hierarchy of software reliability attributes. Basing on statistics, number of publications on different classification attributes retrospective analysis of the change of this subject area has been performed.