Software Reliability

Shigeru Yamada () and Yoshinobu Tamura
Additional contact information
Shigeru Yamada: Tottori University
Yoshinobu Tamura: Yamaguchi University

Chapter Chapter 1 in OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment, 2016, pp 1-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In recent years, many computer system failures have been caused by software faults which were introduced during the software development process. This is an inevitable problem since a software system installed in the computer system is an intellectual product consisting of documents and source programs developed by human activities. Then, total quality Management (TQM) is considered to be one of the key technologies to produce more highly reliable software products. In case of TQM for software management, all phase of the development process, i.e. specification, design, coding, and testing, have to be controlled systematically to prevent software fault-introduction as much as possible and to detect the introduced faults in the software system as early as possible. Basically, the concept of TQM means to assure the quality of the intermediate products in each phase to the next phase. Particularly, quality control executed at the testing phase which is the last stage of the software development process is very important. During the testing phase, the product quality and the software performance during the operation phase are evaluated and assured. Concretely, a lot of software faults introduced in the software system through the first three phases of the development process by human activities are detected, corrected, and removed. Figure 1.1 shows a general software development process so-called a water-fall diagram.

Keywords: Software Reliability; Total Quality Management; Software Fault; Open Source Project; Software Development Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-3-319-31818-9_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319318189

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31818-9_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Series in Reliability Engineering from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().