Software reliability: a continuing dilemma

Summary form only given. Software reliability has received a great deal of attention since the 1980s. How should the reliability analyst deal with it? Over this period many approaches to determine software reliability have been advocated by some of the most reputable people in the industry. The authors anticipate that there will be many more advocated in the future. It is a difficult topic to address in the context of a project with increasing attention to, and constraints put on, schedules and budgets, This paper attempts to provide the reliability engineer with the answers to the software reliability question.