Journal article
The influence of software structure on reliability
Abstract
This paper assumes software structure to be characterized by the interfaces between subsystems or modules. Reliability is considered to be a measure of the extent to which the system can be expected to deliver usable services when those services are demanded. It is argued that reliability and correctness (in the sense used in current computer literature) are not synonyms. The differences suggest techniques by which the reliability of software …
Authors
Parnas DL
Journal
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 358–362
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Date
June 1975
DOI
10.1145/390016.808458
ISSN
0362-1340