With the advent of the computer age, computers, as well as the software running on them, are playing a vital role in our daily lives. We may not have noticed, but appliances such as telephones, TVs, are having their analog and mechanical parts replaced by CPUs and software. People used to believe that “software never breaks”. There is no environmental constraint for software to operate as long as the hardware processor it runs on can operate. Software has no shape, color, material, mass. It can not be seen or touched, but it has a physical existence and is crucial to system functionality. The Software Reliability is rapidly growing in the size and the diversity of both its data and its audience.
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