Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Evaluation and Improvement of Software Dependability

Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Karama Kanoun (1)

1 LAAS-TSF - Équipe Tolérance aux fautes et Sûreté de Fonctionnement informatique

The reliance on the operation of software systems has increased tremendously over the years, spanning almost every aspect of our lives-from shopping and entertainment, to controlling medical devices that sustains human life, controlling airplanes or managing the critical infrastructure. The advances in software engineering, combined with the fast increase of hardware performance and the widespread use of broadband network connectivity led to development of enormous number of useful applications.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Karama Kanoun. Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Evaluation and Improvement of Software Dependability. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2010, 36 (3). ⟨hal-01983990⟩