Assuring quality and reliability of complex electronic systems: hardware and software

Some of the most recent trends in expanding the scope of traditional quality-assurance techniques to include all phases of design, development, manufacture, and deployment, considering both hardware and software, are discussed. Emerging views on quality management are discussed. The life cycle of a product, beginning with the setting of requirements, and including assuring parts reliability, evaluating a fault-tolerant architecture, avoiding physical design hazards, enforcing software development methodology, measuring conformance to requirements in manufacture, and tracking performance in the field is considered. The author's goal is to review in a general way, what can be accomplished through use of the various assurance techniques with references given to examples from the literature, which gives historical background as well as teaches the technical methods in detail. >