[SystemSafety] What do we know about software reliability?

[Martyn Thomas]

On 14/09/2020 15:48, Derek M Jones wrote:

> Martyn,
>
>> .... Bev's
>> paper on "How reliable is a program that has never failed?" offers a
>> useful rule-of-thumb: that aften n hours of fault free operation, there
>> is about 50% chance of a failure in the following n hours (subject to
>> some obvious constraints).
>
> Is this the only (bit) useful theory paper from years past that has stood
> the test of time? 

No, of course not - what an odd question. There are many dozens in
software reliability and many thousands in other areas of theory.

Martyn

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