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This edition provides a comprehensively updated and enhanced review of current quality methods and standards. It outlines causes of failure, current practice and standards and suggests an ideal approach to software control at each stage of the design cycle. The emphasis of this new edition has shifted towards safety critical software. This book should be of interest to systems designers, software engineers, and safety and reliability engineers.
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This edition provides a comprehensively updated and enhanced review of current quality methods and standards. It outlines causes of failure, current practice and standards and suggests an ideal approach to software control at each stage of the design cycle. The emphasis of this new edition has shifted towards safety critical software. This book should be of interest to systems designers, software engineers, and safety and reliability engineers.
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David J. Smith, past Chairman of the Safety and Reliability Society is the author of six successful works on reliability, quality, software and statistics. He has been directly associated with this branch of engineering, in the process and telecommunications industries, for over 20 years and is well known for his courses and workshops on these subjects. He currently runs his own consultancy.
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