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Software Assessment:
Reliability, Safety, Testability

by Michael Friedman and Jeffrey Voas
Published by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 0-471-01009-X
310 pages, 1995

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In Software Assessment, Friedman and Voas offer a balanced presentation of theory and practice. Designed to function as either a graduate-level text or professional reference, this book arms software developers with cutting-edge tools and techniques for measuring and enhancing the safety, reliability, and testability of the programs they produce. Drawing upon their experiences working on major software projects at NASA and other agencies for which software quality is literally a matter of life and death, Friedman and Voas show you how to:


Table of Contents

    Introduction
  1. The Balls and Urn View of Software Testing
  2. The PIE Assessment Model of Software Testability I
  3. The PIE Assessment Model of Software Testability II
  4. Designing Towards the Tester's Utopia
  5. Software Safety
  6. Assessment of Safety-Critical Software Units
  7. Software Reliability Modeling
  8. Software Reliability Growth Modeling
  9. System Modeling
  10. Software Reliability Prediction, Allocation, and Demonstration Testing
  11. Generating Test Cases