Motto: “Prediction is very difficult especially of the future” ( Niels Bohr)
The objective of this course is to answer the following questions:
What is software reliability?
Why are the statistical methods necessary?
How do you measure and predict the software reliability?
A computer is a deterministic machine - why can’t we predict when it will fail next?
If software is such a problem why not build it in hardware?
There is evidence that defects have their origin in design errors. It becomes difficult or impossible to ensure that software contains no faults. The software reliability is currently a very sensitive area in telecommunications for example the introduction of new services.
The course presents opportunities in the field of prediction of software reliability and the tools allowing to characterize the accuracy and quality forecasts.
The theory is the best practice!
Various methods and techniques that we approach based on collected data: the software reliability growth models, statistical tests, among which trend tests (graphic and statistics methods).