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Current State of Software Reliability Estimation
Obaid Qadri, Principal Reliability & Quality Engineer
EMC Corporation
: 50 Constitution Blvd, Franklin, MA
qadri_obaid@emc.com

This session introduces the principles and practice of Software Reliability. Further, tools and methodology of software defect prediction will be presented.

Outline:
How Software Reliability affects our society?
            Overview
            Definition of software reliability.
            What kinds of businesses are pursuing this discipline?
            What are key customer software reliability issues?
            Consequences of lack of Software Reliability

Software Reliability Engineering Tasks
            Core reliability engineering analysis practices.
            Role players in software reliability.

Software Reliability Models
            Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process Model
            Schneidwind Model
            Musa Model
            Yamada S-Shaped Model

Some Program Aspects of Reliability
            Software Reliability Program is incorporated in Software Development Life Cycle.
            Fault Tolerance
            Software Defect Prediction

Presenter:

Obaid Qadri is a Reliability and Quality Engineer in the Customer Quality Organization of EMC Corporation.

He has a M.Sc. (Electronics Engineering) from University of Allahabad, India. Obaid holds a certification in software quality engineering (CSQE) from ASQ. Prior to that Obaid worked as Software Systems Manager for robotics software for the International Space Station, at Canadian Space Agency. He later joined Fidelity Investments as Senior Quality Analyst. Prior to that he worked at Canadian Astronautics Ltd and Indian Space Research Organization.

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