Revisiting Software Reliability

Reliability is an important issue for deciding the quality of the software. Reliability prediction is a statistical procedure that purpose to expect the future reliability values, based on known information during development processes. It is considered as a basic function of software development. A review-based research has been done in this work to evaluate the previously established methodologies for reliability prediction. In this paper, authors give a critical review related to successful research of reliability prediction. This paper also provides many challenges and keys of reliability estimation during software development process. Further, this paper gives a precarious discussion on previous work and identified factors which are important for reliability of software but still ignored. This work helps to developers for predicting the reliability of software with minimum risks.