Title :
Semantic failure [of software]
Author_Institution :
Silver Spring, MD, USA
fDate :
3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
