Peters: Pre-Exploitative Tools for Evaluating Reliability of Software
Sponsored by EPSRC - GR/L57296 - August 1997
Funding to CSR, City University: £175940
Principal investigator: Professor Bev Littlewood
Project summary
This project is concerned with the development of general techniques for obtaining accurate measures and predictions of the reliability of software. It builds on very successful, and novel, research within the Centre for Software Reliability that now allows certain reliability measures to be accompanied by a guarantee of accuracy, and in very general circumstances allows the reliability predictions from models to be improved in the light of their previous errors.The work here mainly addresses the problems faced by statistically unsophisticated users of these new advanced statistical approaches: it provides means whereby the power of the techniques can be made accessible to industrial reliability engineers and software engineers.
Contact
For further information on the above project, contact: Professor Bev Littlewood (bl@csr.city.ac.uk). Tel: 020 7040 8420 (from UK), or +44 20 7040 8420 (outside UK).