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Reliability vs Usability - What's the difference?

reliability | usability |

As nouns the difference between reliability and usability

is that reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy while usability is the state or condition of being usable.

reliability

English

(wikipedia reliability)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy.
  • The quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent, that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See validity).
  • In engineering measurable time of work before failure

    • usability

    English

    Alternative forms

    * useability

    Noun

  • The state or condition of being usable.
  • The degree to which an object, device, software application, etc. is easy to use with no specific training.

    • Derived terms

    * reusability

    Related terms

    * usable

    See also

    * ("usability" on Wikipedia)