Design Criteria Development for Software Reliability

Abstract

Compared with hardware, software reliability is more dependent on design quality. For this reason, the quality of software design is very important to software reliability. Nowadays, carrying out software reliability design criteria is one of the primary means to improve software reliability, and it could also help to summarize experience and lessons learned. After the essence and method of software reliability design being cleared, some implied design ideas for reliability design criteria are elaborated. As the same time the criteria examples are given. Finally, the method on how to apply software reliability design criteria is advanced. The goal of this research is to provide a reference to software reliability design.