The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2006)
7-10 November 2006 - Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper
John D. Musa
Stressed out by competitive pressures to deliver more reliable software faster and cheaper? Software reliability engineering (SRE) can help. This unique tutorial will teach you the essentials of how to apply this standard, proven best practice to the next release of ANY system / component that uses software. It can help software testers, quality assurance engineers, systems engineers or architects, project managers, software developers, and reliability engineers, or students in these areas.
It is an excellent introduction to SRE, providing background that will help you understand the rest of the conference. The continually updated material has been perfected through interaction with thousands of participants worldwide. No prerequisite is required except general familiarity with software project development.
Among many other things, you will learn how to:
The tutorial breaks down the practice of SRE into six major activities. The procedure for each of these steps is presented step by step, with a real example given for each step. The example is a simple, unified one; the participant thus sees how one real project is approached throughout. Participants are strongly encouraged to relate the course material to their experience and to ask questions at any time. Participants immediately practice some of the topics they learn on a simplified project in a group workshop and receive constructive feedback. Thus the interaction within the class and class contributions from a wide variety of projects and project environments can contribute to the participant’s experience.
John D. Musa, one of the creators of the field of SRE, is widely recognized as the leader in reducing it to practice. He currently teaches a 2 day course and consults worldwide to help a wide variety of organizations to deploy SRE practice. He has written 3 books and more than 100 papers on SRE. He has more than 30 years diversified practical experience as software practitioner and manager. An IEEE Fellow, his leadership has been recognized by every edition of Who's Who in America since 1990. The IEEE Reliability Society named him "Engineer of the Year" in 2004. He is an experienced international speaker and teacher (over 200 major presentations) with consistently outstanding feedback. Some sample quotes:
It is an excellent introduction to SRE, providing background that will help you understand the rest of the conference. The continually updated material has been perfected through interaction with thousands of participants worldwide. No prerequisite is required except general familiarity with software project development.
Among many other things, you will learn how to:
- Develop operational profiles and apply them to greatly increase development and test efficiency.
- Determine the reliability your customers need for your product and engineer your process to deliver it.
- Allocate your test cases and test time for the most effective testing.
- Process failure data to track reliability growth, certify systems, and guide their release.
The tutorial breaks down the practice of SRE into six major activities. The procedure for each of these steps is presented step by step, with a real example given for each step. The example is a simple, unified one; the participant thus sees how one real project is approached throughout. Participants are strongly encouraged to relate the course material to their experience and to ask questions at any time. Participants immediately practice some of the topics they learn on a simplified project in a group workshop and receive constructive feedback. Thus the interaction within the class and class contributions from a wide variety of projects and project environments can contribute to the participant’s experience.
John D. Musa, one of the creators of the field of SRE, is widely recognized as the leader in reducing it to practice. He currently teaches a 2 day course and consults worldwide to help a wide variety of organizations to deploy SRE practice. He has written 3 books and more than 100 papers on SRE. He has more than 30 years diversified practical experience as software practitioner and manager. An IEEE Fellow, his leadership has been recognized by every edition of Who's Who in America since 1990. The IEEE Reliability Society named him "Engineer of the Year" in 2004. He is an experienced international speaker and teacher (over 200 major presentations) with consistently outstanding feedback. Some sample quotes:
- "One of the best tutorials I have attended"
- "Ideas I could immediately use on my job"
- "Simple, clear, very easy to understand"
- "Highly credible, very knowledgeable and competent speaker"
- "Great mix of anecdotes with material, good sense of humor, tutorial was fun!"
- "I never felt embarrassed about what I didn't know"
- "Excellent audience interaction, speaker very approachable"