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-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.
System Software Reliability is an introduction to software reliability engineering as well as a detailed survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems. The most recent research results in the field are reported and future directions in the subject are signposted.
This comprehensive text will be of interest to:
- graduate students as an introduction to software reliability engineering and a textbook for graduate courses;
- software and reliability engineers as a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field; and,
- researchers and lecturers in universities and research institutions as a one-volume reference.
About the Author
Professor Pham is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (World Scientific) and was Guest Editor/Co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Systems and Software, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, and IEEE Communications. Professor Pham is also Conference Chair of the Eighth ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Scientific book series on Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Professor Pham has published with Springer in the past as the editor of the Handbook of Reliability Engineering (1-85233-453-3 ,663 pp., £120 (hbk), sales 588 since 17 April 03) and the upcoming Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics (expected pub 30 May 05) as well as Software Reliability (S-V Singapore 2000, 981 3803 84 0, out of print).
