Teaching SRE in a diverse graduate student context

Software reliability has progressively become critical issues due to the number and the nature of the fields invaded. Software development companies need to be provided with the capability to improve their software development process and decrease its related costs. The Software Reliability Engineering Curriculum and in particular a graduate level software reliability modeling course at the University of Maryland was created to respond to this need. In this paper, the contents of the course in the context of a particularly diverse environment are discussed