Software Defect and Operational Profile Modeling

Software Defect and Operational Profile Modeling presents a systematic discussion of three important questions in software reliability engineering: how to estimate the number of software defects; how to model software operational profiles; and how to estimate software failure rate and quantify software correctness when testing reveals no failures. Researchers will find that this book presents a reasonable summary of related topics and contains a modest amount of original and new research results. Practitioners will find that this book is a readable reference. Methods are systematically formulated and carefully examined. Advantages and disadvantages of the discussed methods are analyzed. Students will find this book serves as supplementary reading in a software (reliability) engineering course. Problems included in the Remarks and Problems section of each chapter can be used for the classroom purpose.