The book "Reliability Engineering: Theory and Practice" by Prof. Dr. Alessandro Birolini is a comprehensive resource on reliability engineering, now in its fourth edition. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of reliability, maintainability, and availability analysis and testing. The content has been extended and reviewed, with new models and considerations added to various chapters and appendices. The book is structured into three main parts: practical aspects of reliability, maintainability, and availability analysis; appendices on management aspects and basic probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; and detailed chapters on reliability analysis during the design and development phase, qualification tests, maintainability analysis, design guidelines, and statistical quality control. The author emphasizes the importance of early failure rate and failure mode analyses, qualification tests, and the integration of reliability into the development process. The book also discusses the role of software quality assurance and the coordination of reliability engineering with quality management efforts. It is designed as a textbook for graduate students and engineers, providing a wealth of practical examples, tables, and figures to support learning and application.The book "Reliability Engineering: Theory and Practice" by Prof. Dr. Alessandro Birolini is a comprehensive resource on reliability engineering, now in its fourth edition. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of reliability, maintainability, and availability analysis and testing. The content has been extended and reviewed, with new models and considerations added to various chapters and appendices. The book is structured into three main parts: practical aspects of reliability, maintainability, and availability analysis; appendices on management aspects and basic probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; and detailed chapters on reliability analysis during the design and development phase, qualification tests, maintainability analysis, design guidelines, and statistical quality control. The author emphasizes the importance of early failure rate and failure mode analyses, qualification tests, and the integration of reliability into the development process. The book also discusses the role of software quality assurance and the coordination of reliability engineering with quality management efforts. It is designed as a textbook for graduate students and engineers, providing a wealth of practical examples, tables, and figures to support learning and application.