A Study on Reliability of software metrics in Software products

Abstract

The objective of this research paper is to study about the software reliability metrics. “Software Reliability is defined as the probability of failure-free software operation for a specified period of time in a specified environment”. Software Reliability is different from Hardware reliability. Achieving Software reliability is hard because the complexity of software tends to be high. Software Reliability can be categorized into 3 parts : modeling, measurement & improvement. Various approaches can be used to improve the reliability of the software, however, it is hard to balance development time and budget with software reliability. But the best approach to assure software reliability is develop a reliability metrics. This article article provides an overview of Software Reliability measurement techniques.