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1. General software reliability issues
1.1 What is software reliability?
According to the UTE (Union technique de l'électricité), the reliability of software, or more generally of a system, refers to its ability to carry out its mission under given environmental conditions and for a given period of time. Reliability thus characterizes the confidence that the user can place in the service provided by a system.
In this article, the reference definition of software reliability is: "The probability of a software product performing the set of functions specified in its reference document, in a given environment and for a given operating time." This is a reliability definition, which can be evaluated by a mathematical expression, and is therefore much more restrictive than the definition of software...
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Bibliography
Digital media
ENSIMAG 3rd year – Reliability of systems and software – Notes de cours – Olivier Gaudoin http://docplayer.fr/775864-Fiabilite-des-systemes-et-des-logiciels.html
Software tools
CASRE (Computer Aided Software Reliability Estimation) Tool http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/projects/CASRE_3.0
M-élopée http://www.all4tec.net
Events
ERTS Embedded Real Time Software and Systems
ISSRE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Lambda Mu – IMDR Congress (Institute for Risk Management)
Standards and norms
- Capability Maturity Model Integration for Acquisition, Version CMMI-ACQ V1.2 Technical Report – CMU/SEI-2007-TR-017 - CMMI-Acq - 11-07
- Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development, Version CMMI-DEV V1.2 Technical Report – CMU/SEI-2006-TR-008 - CMMI-Dev - 08-06
- Méthodologie de fiabilité pour les systèmes électroniques - FIDES - 2004
- IEEE Recommended Practice on Software Reliability (SR)...
Regulations
There are no regulations concerning software reliability, but rather regulations concerning the safety of programmed systems, which are outside the scope of this article.
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ALL4TEC – M-élopée tool distributor http://www.all4tec.net
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IMDR – Institute for Risk Management http://www.imdr.fr
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