Hong Kong Computer Society

Hong Kong Software Process Improvement Network
Special Interest Group (HKSPIN) Speaker's Meeting

Topci: Design, Testing and Evaluation Techniques for
Software Reliability Engineering

Date: 24 April 2001 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Networking Hour
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. HKSPIN AGM
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. HKSPIN Speaker's Meeting
Venue: Room PQ703, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Seat: 70 persons (Registration on a first-come-first-served basis.)
Fee: FREE - HKCS Member / HK$90.00 - Non-HKCS Member
Speaker: Dr. Michael R. Lyu
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Abstract: Software reliability is closely influenced by the creation, manifestation and impact of software faults.Consequently, software reliability can be improved by treating software faults properly, using techniques of fault tolerance, fault removal, and fault prediction.  Fault tolerance techniques achieve the design for reliability, fault removal techniques achieve the testing for reliability, and fault prediction techniques achieve the evaluation for reliability.  In this talk we present best current practices in software reliability engineering for the design, testing, and evaluation purposes.  We describe how fault tolerant components can be applied in software applications, how software testing can be conducted to show improvement of software reliability, and how software reliability can be modeled and measured for complex systems.  We also examine the associated tools for applying these techniques.
Biograpgy: Dr. Michael R. Lyu is currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Technical Staff Member from 1988 to 1990.  From 1990 to 1992 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Iowa as an Assistant Professor.  From 1992 to 1995, he was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Applied Research Area of the Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). From 1995 to 1997 he was a research Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs., which was first part of AT&T and later became part of Lucent Technologies.  Dr. Lyu's research interests include software reliability engineering, distributed systems, fault-tolerant computing, wireless communication networks, Web technologies, digital library, and E-commerce.  He has published over 100 refereed journal and conference papers in these areas.  He initiated the first International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) in 1990.  He was the program chair for ISSRE'96, and has served in program committees for many conferences.  He is the General Chair for ISSRE'2001, and the WWW10 Program Co-Chair.  He is the editor for two book volumes: Software Fault Tolerance, published by Wiley in 1995 and the Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering, published by IEEE and McGraw-Hill in 1996.  He is an associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Journal of Information Science and Engineering.

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