• 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