Pre-Requisite(s): Probability Statistics

Introduction, Definition of Software Reliability: basic Reliability Mathematics: Key concepts in Software Reliability: Software failure mechanisms: The bathtub curve for software reliability: Available tools and techniques and metrics: Software reliability models: Software reliability metrics: Software reliability improvement techniques: Relation of software reliability to domains like Software fault tolerance: software testing and Hardware reliability.

Text/Reference Books:

• M.R Lyu: Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering: Mc Graw Hill, 1995.
• M.Xie: Software Reliability Modelling, World Scientific, 1991.
• J.D. Musa, A. lannino, K. Okumoto: Software Reliability: Measurement, Prediction, Application, 1999