The analysis for software dependability is considered an important task within the software engineering life cycle. However, it is often impossible to carry out this task due to the complexity of available tools, lack of expert personnel and time-to-market pressures. As a result, released software versions may present unverified dependability properties subjecting customers to blind software reliability assessment. In particular, concurrent systems present certain behaviour that require a more complex system analysis not easily grasped at system design and architecture level.
Citation:
Genaina Nunes Rodrigues, David Rosenblum, Jonas Wolf, "Reliability Analysis of Concurrent Systems Using LTSA," icsecompanion, pp.63-64, 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07 Companion), 2007