...Subhas Misra; Vinod Kumar; Uma Kumar; Kamel Fantazy; Mahmud Akhter Purpose Agile software development is an emerging approach in software engineering, initially proposed and promoted by a group of 17 software professionals who practice a set of “lightweight” methods, and share a common set...

...Weishing Chen; Tai‐Hsi Wu Studies a non‐homogeneous Poisson process software reliability model with failure rate based on Zipf’s law. Discusses the rate function, mean value function and the estimation of parameters. The proposed model can be used to analyse the reliability growth. The results...

...Yash P. Gupta In this article the following are discussed: (a) the role of quality assurance in the development of computer software systems; (b) factors of a successful quality assurance programme; and (c) the steps required in the development of such a programme. The implications for quality...

...Mohammed Hashim This article suggests a socio‐technical approach to the planning of reliable communication software by considering the various unique features that influence its reliability and performance. It proposes a realistic model for the prediction and estimation of communication software...

...P. Mellor The use of “fault‐counting” models with “discrete” data in the case of commercial software has considerable advantages for the vendor. The adapted Littlewood Stochastic Reliability Growth model has the advantage of allowing a variety of fault manifestation rates. The process of inferring...