Design for Reliability

Index

A-BIT (automatic BIT),

Above-specification test,

Abstract data types, as software design principle,

Abstraction

in interface design,

as software design principle,

Accelerated life testing (ALT),

Accelerated reliability testing (ART),

Accelerated stresses,

Acceleration factors (α),

“Acceptable hazard” system,

Accurate performance speciications, writing,

Across-media perceptions,

Actionable cause,

Action results,

Actions, developing,

Activation energy,

Actual failure mode,

Additive RPN approach,

Administrative applications, software fault tolerance for,

Adverse effects, mitigating,

Aerospace systems, failure tolerance in,

Aging tests,

Air traffic controllers, system rejuvenation for,

AIX operating system,

Alaska Highway,

Allocation of functions,

American Society for Quality (ASQ),

Analog circuit redesign,

Application domains, reusing software across,

Architecture, of software systems,

Architecture documentation,

Architecture FMECA,

Architecture-level reliability risk analysis,

Arrhenius model,

Assembly errors,

Assembly failure mode,

Assessment leader, in reliability capability assessment,

Assessment updates,

Asynchronous software aging,

Audits, Y2K software,

Austin, Steven S.,

Automatic stress monitoring, sensors for,

Basic reliability models,

Basili, Victor,

Bayesian techniques,

Benchmarking, of product defect rate,

Benefits

of coniguration management,

of reliability programs,

of risk assessments,

Bernstein, Lawrence,

BIT capabilities,. See also Built-in test (BIT)

BIT circuitry, ...