Syllabus
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Course Code: Elective-VI PE-CS-A406 Course Name: Software Reliability |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Basic Ideas of Software Reliability, Hardware reliability vs. Software reliability, Reliability metrics, Failure and Faults – Prevention, Removal, Tolerance, Forecast, Dependability Concept – Failure Behaviour, Characteristics, Maintenance Policy, Reliability and Availability Modeling, Reliability Evaluation Testing methods, Limits, Starvation, Coverage, Filtering, Microscopic Model of Software Risk. | |
| 2 | Computation of software reliability, Functional and Operational Profile, Operational Profiles – Difficulties, Customer Type, User Type, System Mode, Test Selection - Selecting Operations, Regression Test. | |
| 3 | Classes of software reliability Models, Time Dependent Software Reliability Models: Time between failure reliability Models, Fault Counting Reliability Models. Time Independent Software Reliability Models: Fault injection model of Software Reliability, Input Domain Reliability Model, Orthogonal defect classification, Software availability Models. Software Reliability Modeling: A general procedure for reliability modeling. | |
| 4 | Short and Long Term Prediction, Model Accuracy, Analysing Predictive Accuracy – Outcomes, PLR, U and Y Plot, Errors and Inaccuracy, Recalibration – Detecting Bias, Different Techniques, Power of Recalibration, Limitations in Present Techniques, Improvements. | |
