Providing a general introduction to software reliability engineering, this book presents detailed analytical models, state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies, and tools used to assess the reliability of software systems. It also explores new directions of research in the field of software reliability engineering, including fault tolerant software and a new software reliability model that includes environmental factors.
This book provides an introduction to software reliability engineering, highlighting its importance in critical applications like air traffic control and medical monitoring. It surveys current techniques, methodologies, and tools for assessing software reliability, making it suitable for graduate students, reliability engineers, and researchers.
An effective reliability programme is crucial for product design, testing, and production. This comprehensive reference covers failure analysis in microelectronics, software fault tolerance, accelerated life testing of mechanical components, and hardware verification, all underpinned by a common reliability philosophy. It includes methodologies for quality, maintainability, and dependability, featuring contributions from 60 leading experts in academia and industry, ensuring authoritative coverage. A distinguished international Editorial Board guarantees clarity and precision, while extensive references provide insights into theoretical foundations, recent research, and future directions. The comprehensive subject index enhances utility for readers. Applications span various engineering branches, including IT, power, automotive, and aerospace, making it an indispensable resource for researchers in industrial, electrical, electronics, computer, civil, mechanical, and systems engineering. Professional engineers will find creative reliability solutions, and management can use it to evaluate systems reliability and improve processes. For students, it serves as an ideal starting point for research projects, addressing basic questions in communications and electronics or exploring advanced applications in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), manufacturing, and high-assurance engineering systems.
Focusing on advanced methodologies, this textbook offers in-depth analytical models for evaluating the reliability of complex systems within statistical reliability engineering. Drawing from over 30 years of the author's research and practical experience, it serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding contemporary techniques and applications in the field.
Integrating development processes, policies, and reliability predictions from the beginning of the product development lifecycle to ensure high levels of product performance and safety, this book helps companies overcome the challenges posed by increasingly complex systems in today’s competitive marketplace. Examining both research on and practical aspects of product quality and reliability management with an emphasis on applications, the book features contributions written by active researchers and/or experienced practitioners in the field, so as to effectively bridge the gap between theory and practice and address new research challenges in reliability and quality management in practice. Postgraduates, researchers and practitioners in the areas of reliability engineering and management, amongst others, will find the book to offer a state-of-the-art survey of quality and reliability management and practices.