[SystemSafety] What do we know about software reliability?

[Derek M Jones]

Martyn,

> How do you then get from the number of fatal defects to a reliability?

You don't.

What it says on the can is an estimate of a particular kind of
failure.


> On 14/09/2020 14:46, Derek M Jones wrote:
>> Fuzzing appears to be a practical technique for gathering the data
>> needed to
>> estimate likely number of mistakes that will cause a system crash.
>> Practical
>> in that a few months of cpu time is quite cheap these days.
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