Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence?

by National Research Council and Daniel Jackson

The focus of Software for Dependable Systems is a set of fundamental principles that underlie software system dependability and that suggest a different approach to the development and assessment of dependable software.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to assess the dependability of software. The field of software engineering suffers from a pervasive lack of evidence about the incidence and severity of software failures; about the dependability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309103940
• ISBN13: 9780309103947
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"