Software Supportability Risk Assessment in OT&E (Operational Test and Evaluation): Literature Review, Current Research Review, and Data Base Assemblage.

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 for 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 a literature review and current research review to determine the level of effort and usefulness of developing and implementing a risk assessment model for software supportability (RAMSS) in OT&E. This document makes no judgement on the information gathered, but instead serves as the first step in the development of an RAMSS model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 28, 1984
Accession Number
ADA191874

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • Braddock Dunn & McDonald

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Surveys
  • System Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering.