Software component independence
Denise M. Woit, Dave Mason · 2002
Independence is a fundamental requirement for calculating system reliability from component reliabilities, whether in hardware or software systems. Markov analysis is often used in such calculation; however, procedures as conventionally used do not qualify as nodes in a Markov system. We outline the requirements for several classes of component independence and use the CPS (continuation passing style) transformation to convert conventional procedures into fragments that are appropriate to Markov analysis.