Software Supportability Risk Assessment in OT&E (Operational Test and Evaluation): Measures for a Risk Assessment Model

Abstract

Assessing the software supportability risk of Air Force acquired systems is necessary to enable various decision makers to properly plan for system deployment. Risk assessment (RA) is required throughout the system acquisition life cycle. Since the perspective of OT&E is focused upon the overall system mission, including supportability, methods are required which provide software testers with areas which require testing emphasis and which provide decision makers with an assessment of software and software support risk for production decisions. Due to the complexity of these requirements, it is necessary to determine the feasibility of developing and implementing a risk assessment model of software supportability with the proper system mission perspective to ultimately assist the top level decision maker. This report contains the results of an analysis of candidate measures of software supportability to determine the level of effort and usefulness of developing and implementing a risk assessment model for software supportability (RAMSS) in OT&E. The document also describes the model framework and assesses the feasibility of model development and implementation under this framework.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 28, 1984
Accession Number
ADA190285

Entities

People

  • David E. Peercy
  • G. D. Richardson
  • Walter Huebner Jr.

Organizations

  • Braddock Dunn & McDonald

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Information Science
  • Life Cycles
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Software Development
  • System Software
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Software Engineering.