Reliability
Reliability
- DEFINITION: Probability of a successful outcome of the system or component.
- Reliability is also defined in terms of system requirements.
- Thus, to evaluate a system it is necessary to know the goals and purposes of the system.
- Reliability is a probabilistic term.
- Never seen the perfect system.
- Calculation of Reliability
- R = (# of successful operations)/(total # of operations)
- R = 1 - EP