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From: coleman@sunny.DAB.GE.COM (Richard Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: reliability theory in software engineering
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:53:10 GMT
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-- 
  I have been rereading a paper that a prof gave me when
I was taking a course in reliability theory.  It is titled
'Fault Diversity in Software Reliabilty' by Boland,Proschan,and
Tong.  I was just curious if anyone has had any success in using
statistical reliablity techniques in a commercial software project.
It seems that if a software project was large enough that
you could use statistical techniques to optimize the search for
bugs, assuming you had a good ideas of the distribution of bugs
in your software.
  Does anyone have any good sources to recommend on work of
this nature.


     Richard Coleman
     G.E. Simulation & Control Systems
     coleman@sunny.dab.ge.com