ENGLISH

Software Reliability Methods

By Doron A. Peled

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2001
ISBN
978-1-4419-2876-4, 978-1-4757-3540-6
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-3540-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6367933 bytes)
Series
Texts in Computer Science
Pages
343\343
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-19 20:00:00
Computer Communication Networks; Programming Techn

Description

Many books focus on increasing the quality of software through the use of formal methods. However, most books embrace one particular method, and present it as the suggested solution for the software reliability problem. This book presents a wider picture of formal methods, through a collection of notations and techniques. It compares them, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages. One of the main challenges of formal methods is in transferring the tech­ nology developed by researchers to the software development community. Re­ cently, we seem to be starting to have a better understanding of the important ingredients of formal methods tools. This manifests itself in the growing ac­ ceptance of such tools in the software and hardware development industry. Ideally, formal methods need to be intuitive to use (preferably using graphi­ cal interfaces), do not impose on the user an extensive learning period, and incur only small overhead to the development process. Formal methods are much more acceptable today than ten or twenty years ago, in particular in the hardware industry. Yet there is still a lively contention between different approaches.

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