Study of Factors Affecting Reliability in Software Development Process

Abstract

A timely delivered software product only if all the phases of software development process are completed within estimated and mostly set up time. A software product with higher reliability, higher performance and functionality is the demand of fast changing market demands. Many researchers have made significant tools and techniques to accomplish the quality of software. However, at the same time, the field have need of a future research work to improve the quality of software and to cut the challenges in each phase. Software development processes issues have been in and around ever since the beginning of software development. Software system development is viewed as a series of discrete ordered activities that produce successively more constrained models of the system by binding in additional system aspects. Treating the system aspects as separate concerns allows software engineering techniques that control production cost and enhance reliability to be applied to each step. The greatest gains, however, are due to the reliability and traceability of the system over its lifetime. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of productivity factors recently considered by software practitioners. This paper also describes the major activities in the software development along with its key issues.