Practical Application of Dependability Engineering

This book provides a wealth of practical knowledge and industry best practices to address dependability management and engineering issues with helpful guidance and checklists from a system life cycle perspective, hence making this book a valued asset as a comprehensive desk-top reference. The topics presented in this book highlight the essence of life cycle management practices and systematic cost-effective solutions focusing on dependability performance characteristics for project risk avoidance and failure prevention. The dedicated chapters of relevant dependability topics are organized and structured to facilitate easy comprehension that would appeal to educators to use this as an instructional textbook to train new dependability engineers. This book is intended for engineers and practitioners who need to solve problems and find answers to achieve dependability performance of technological and evolving systems.