Software Reliability Measurement and Prediction

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Why Study and Measure Software Reliability?

• What Is Reliability?

• Faults and Failures

• Failure Severity Classes

• Failure Intensity

• The Cost of Reliability

• Software Reliability Theory

• Reliability Models

• Failure Arrival Rates

• But When Do I Ship?

• System Configurations: Probability and Reliability

• Answers to Initial Question

• Summary

• Problems

• Project

• References