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Software System Design Methods

The Challenge of Advanced Computing Technology

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Jozef K. Skwirzynski

    1. GEC Research Laboratories, Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, UK

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Subseries F: (NATO ASI F, volume 22)

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Table of contents (26 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  3. Back Matter

    Pages 123-151
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  4. Human Factors in Development and Use of Software

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Psychological Research on Software Development

      • Bill Curtis
      Pages 155-183

    3. From Interactive to Intelligent Systems

      • Gerhard Fischer
      Pages 185-212

    4. Design and Use of Programming Languages

      • T R G Green
      Pages 213-241

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 243-271
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  6. The Development and Status of Empirical/Statistical Reliability Models for Software and their Relation to Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
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    2. Application of Basic and Logarithmic Poisson Execution Time Models in Software Reliability Measurement

      • John D. Musa, Kazuhira Okumoto
      Pages 275-298

    3. Tools for the Analysis of the Accuracy of Software Reliability Predictions

      • B. Littlewood, A. A. Abdel Ghaly, P. Y. Chan
      Pages 299-335

    4. The Use of Exploratory Data Analysis Techniques for Software Reliability Assessment and Prediction

      • Tony Bendell
      Pages 337-351

    5. Failure Patterns and Reliability Growth Potential for Software Systems

      • Larry H. Crow
      Pages 353-363

    6. The Use of Regression Techniques for Matching Reliability Models to the Real World

      • Harold Ascher
      Pages 365-378

    7. The Assessment of Software Reliability for Systems with High Reliability Requirements

      • Chris Dale
      Pages 379-398
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About this book

In this volume we present the full proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on the theme of the challenge of advanced computing technology to system design methods. This is in fact the second ASI organised by myself and my colleagues in the field of systems reliability; the first was about Electronic Systems Effectiveness and Life Cycle Costing, and the proceed­ ings were published by the same publisher in 1983, as "Series F (Computer and System Sciences, No. 3)". The first part of the present proceedings concentrates on the development of low-fault and fault-tolerant software. In organising this session I was greatly helped by Mr. John Musa and Professor V. R. Basili. The latter and Or. R. W. Selby open our text with their interesting approach to the problem of data collection and of observation sampling for statistical analysis of software development, software testing strategies and error analysis. The problem of clean­ room software development is also considered. Next Professor B. Randell discusses recursively structured fault-tolerant distributed computer systems, and bases his approach on a UNIX system example. His aim is to establish that a distributed system should be functionally equivalent to an individual computing system. Or. L. F. Pau considers knowledge engineering techniques applied to fault detection, test generation and maintenance of software. This is illustrated by a variety of examples, such as electronic failure detection, control system testing, analysis of intermittent failures, false alarm reduction and others. Following this Mr. M.

Editors and Affiliations

  • GEC Research Laboratories, Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, UK

    Jozef K. Skwirzynski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Software System Design Methods

  • Book Subtitle: The Challenge of Advanced Computing Technology

  • Editors: Jozef K. Skwirzynski

  • Series Title: NATO ASI Subseries F:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82846-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-82848-5Published: 16 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-82846-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1248

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 747

  • Topics: Software Engineering, Computer Communication Networks

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