Software Reliability Engineering: An Overview

Pallavi Priya, Shubhra Gautam Sharma

Abstract: Software reliability is based on the methods of engineering which involves the development and maintenance of the software systems whose reliability is measurable. Software reliability have been a major subject of research over last many years; still researches are going on. Software reliability is considered a major factor for software quality. It is a system dependability concept. System dependency is increasing day by day due to which Software reliability has become a major concern of users. SRE can be defined as the study of the processes and outcomes of a software system which is the basic requirement of all the users. This paper gives an overview of characters of Software reliability; Software reliability activities; metrics; modeling; improvement techniques.

Keywords: Reliability, Metrics, Model, Software Quality, Engineering