DocumentCode
1399305
Title
Semantic failure [of software]
Author
Gottfried, Paul
Author_Institution
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Volume
47
Issue
1
fYear
1998
fDate
3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
5
Abstract
The author offers the opinion that the adoption of the terminology of hardware reliability in the context of software was a terrible, probably unavoidable, and perhaps even necessary, mistake: terrible-because the words cannot have the same meanings in both contexts; and unavoidable-because today there are few systems whose reliability can be assessed without dealing with both
Keywords
failure analysis; nomenclature; software reliability; hardware reliability; semantic failure; software reliability; systems reliability assessment; terminology; Fault tolerant systems; Fuses; Hardware; Internet; Silver; Software maintenance; Springs; Tires; Vehicle driving; Vehicles;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/24.690883
Filename
690883
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