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Chapter 11
Software Reliability
Measurement and Prediction
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- discussed in Chapter 10
identied soware reliability as a key high-level attribute. In
Chapter7, although we did not refer to reliability explicitly, the main
examples treated soware “quality” as a surrogate for soware reliability.
So, it is not surprising that soware reliability has been the most exten-
sively studied of all the quality attributes. Quantitative methods for its
assessment date back to the early 1970s, evolving from the theory of hard-
ware reliability. In this chapter, we describe these methods, highlight-
ing their limitations as ...