System Software Reliability
Computer software reliability has never been more important. Today, computers are employed in areas as diverse as air traffic control, nuclear reactors, aircraft, real-time military, industrial process control, security system control, biometric scan-syst
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Series Editor Professor Hoang Pham Department of Industrial Engineering Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 96 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018 USA
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Hoang Pham, PhD Department of Industrial Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 96 Freylinghuysen Road Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8018 USA
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Pham, Hoang System software reliability. - (Springer series in reliability engineering) 1.Systems software 2.Computer software - Reliability I.Title 005.4’3 ISBN-10: 1852339500 Library of Congress Control Number: 2006924634 Springer Series in Reliability Engineering series ISSN 1614-7839 ISBN-10: 1-85233-950-0 e-ISBN 1-84628-295-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-85233-950-0
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To my parents Phong Pham and Tam Huynh, for many reasons.
Preface
In today’s technological world nearly everyone depends upon the continued functioning of a wide array of complex machinery and equipment for our everyday safety, security, mobility and economic welfare. We expect our electric appliances, hospital monitoring control, next-generation aircraft, data exchange systems, and aerospace applications to function wherever and whenever we need them. When they fail, the results can be catastrophic. As our society grows in complexity, so do the critical challenges in the area of system and software reliability engineering. In general, system software reliability is the probability that the system will not fail for a specified period of time under specified conditions. The greatest problem facing the industry today is how to asse
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