We are delighted to bring out this special issue of International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSAEM). The editors-in-chief of IJSAEM decided to bring out special issues on different areas of assurance engineering and management to initiate the process of dissemination of knowledge in the area faster. This special issue on ‘Software Reliability and Management’ is one such issue in this series of special issues.

The editors of this special issue wrote to known researchers in this area outside and within India, inviting them to contribute their papers. In all nine papers were accepted both theoretical and applied in nature and we hope they will contribute towards understanding the software reliability management in the research and business.

The editors are grateful to various authors who have made significant contributions in this special issue. We hope that this special issue will give a fairly good idea about what is happening in the area and should provide a good impetus to researchers to work in this important field of research.