Computer software reliability has never been so important. Computers are used in areas as diverse as air traffic control, nuclear reactors, real-time military, industrial process control, security system control, biometric scan-systems, automotive, mechanical and safety control, and hospital patient monitoring systems. Many of these applications require critical functionality as software applications increase in size and complexity. This book is an introduction to software reliability engineering and a survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems. Current research results are reported and future directions are signposted. This text will interest: graduate students as a course textbook introducing reliability engineering software; reliability engineers as a broad, up-to-date survey of the field; and researchers and lecturers in universities and research institutions as a one-volumereference.

Giving an accessible introduction to software and systems reliability engineering whilst being up to date with current developments in this field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Prof. P.K. Kapur obtained his PhD in Operational Research from University of Delhi in 1977. He is a professor and former head of the Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi. He is a regional editor of International Journal of Performability Engineering and area editor of OPSEARCH, the journal of Operational Research Society of India. He has edited special issues of International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (2004, 2007), OPSEARCH, India (2005, 2008), International Journal of Performability Engineering (IJPE India, 2006) and Communications In Dependability and Quality Management - An International Journal (2007). He organized the International Conference on Quality Reliability and Information Technology in 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009. He has published more than 150 research papers in the areas of hardware reliability, optimization, queuing theory, maintenance, and software reliability. He has edited three volumes on quality, reliability and IT and one on advances in performance and safety of complex systems. He has co-authored a book, Contributions to Hardware and Software Reliability, and he has contributed chapters in several edited books including some published by Springer. He has guided MTech / PhD theses in Computer Science, as well as in Operations Research. He has travelled extensively in India and abroad, and delivered invited talks. He is cited in Marquis Who's Who in the World. His research interests include hardware and software reliability, optimization, queuing theory, innovation diffusion modeling, numerical computation of stochastic models and marketing. He is a former president of Operational Research Society of India. Currently, he is president of Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management. Prof. H. Pham received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a professor and chairman of the Department ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. Before joining Rutgers, he was a senior engineering specialist with the Boeing Company, Seattle, and the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls. He is the author or co-author of five books such as Software Reliability (Springer 2000), System Software Reliability (Springer 2006), Reliability and Optimal Maintenance (Springer 2006) and Maintenance for Industrial Systems. He has edited more than 10 volumes including Handbook of Reliability Engineering (Springer 2003), Handbook of Engineering Statistics (Springer 2006), and Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design (Springer 2008); among many others. He is also the editor of Springer Series in Reliability Engineering and has published more than 100 journal articles, and 30 book chapters. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering and is an editorial board member of several journals. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. He has been the conference chair and program chair of over 25 international conferences and workshops, including the 17th International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, Vancouver B.C., 2011. His research interests include software reliability, system reliability modeling, maintenance, fault-tolerant computing, and environmental risk assessment. His recent awards include 2009 IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award. He is a fellow of the IEEE. Anshu Gupta obtained her PhD, MPhil and MSc degrees in Operational Research from University of Delhi, Delhi in 2009, 2005 and 2003, respectively. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, Delhi. She was gold medalist in the master's degree, 2003. She has published several papers in the area of software reliability and marketing. Her research interestsinclude modeling and optimization in software reliabili

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System Reliability Concepts.- Theory of Estimation.- Software Development Lifecycle and Data Analysis.- Software Reliability Modeling.- Imperfect-debugging Models.- Testing Coverage and Removal Models.- Software Reliability Models with Environmental Factors.- Calibrating Software Reliability Models.- Optimal Release Policies.- Complex Fault-tolerant System Reliability Modeling.