APPROACH FOR ENHANCING THE RELIABILITY OF SOFTWARE

Reliability is always important in all systems but sometimes it is more important than other quality attributes, especially in mission critical systems where the severity of consequence resulting from failure is very high. Software reliability engineering is focused on comprehensive techniques for developing reliable software and for proper assessment and improvement of reliability. Reliability metrics, models and measurements form an essential part of software reliability engineering process. Appropriate metrics, models and measurement techniques should be applied to produce reliable software. Hence, it is the intention to develop some approaches to enhance the reliability of software by the analysis of the structure of the software, execution scenario for various inputs and operational profile.