RE 616 Software Reliability
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Economic factors. Design documentation - HIPO, data flow graphs, flow
charts Wernier-Orr diagrams. Programming techniques structured,
redundant, defensive top-down & bottom-up design, modular design.
Complexity analysis - types heuristic measures, statistical approach,
Sip's law, software physics, Laemmel-Shooman's estimates, Halsfeads
estimates, number of errors and development time, cyclomatic
complexity, knot complexity programme testing types,debugging
techniques graph models, choice of test data,exhaustive testing
software error nd faults, estimation of bugs, reliability and
availability models.
Texts/References :
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Martin L. Shooman, Software Engineering, Design, Reliability and
Management, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1987.
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John D. Mus, Anthony Iannino and Kazuhira Okumato, Software Reliability
Measurement, Prediction, Application, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1987.
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Thomas A. Thayer, Myron Lipow and Eldred C. Nelson, Software
Reliability, TRW and North Holland Publishing Co., 1978.
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T. Anderson and B. Randell, Computing Systems Reliability, Cambridge
University Press, 1979.
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G.J. Myers,Software Reliability - Principles and Practices, John Wiley
and Sons, 1976.
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R.L. Glass, Software Reliability Guide Book, Prentice Hall Inc., NJ,
1979.
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