Software Faults and Reliability

Han Seong Son () and Man Cheol Kim ()
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Han Seong Son: Joongbu University
Man Cheol Kim: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute

Chapter 4 in Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems, 2009, pp 81-103 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Software, unlike hardware, does not fail, break, wear out over time, or fall out of tolerance [1]. Hardware reliability models are based on variability and the physics of failure (Chapter 1), but are not applied to software since software is not physical. For example, it is not possible to perform the equivalent of accelerated hardware stress testing on software. Consequently, different paradigms must be used to evaluate software reliability, which raises a few issues for software reliability engineers.

Keywords: Failure Mode; Software Reliability; Fault Tree; Software Fault; Failure Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-384-2_4

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