Software Dependability

Learning objectives

It is a main goal of this module that students can place the notion of dependability in the wider context of general software development. Consequently, we emphasise systematic approaches to dependability - considering concepts, methods and techniques that do not take aspects of dependability into account accidentally or in late development phases, but rather consider these characteristics to be as important as functional aspects. For any software project, only limited resources will be available. Therefore, a trade-off between different characteristics will be inevitable. The students will understand that an engineering process determining an adequate trade-off will lead to results depending on the characteristics of the project under consideration.