Assuring Software Reliability

Abstract

The 2005 Department of Defense Guide for Achieving Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) recommended an emphasis on engineering analysis with formal design reviews with less reliance on RAM predictions. A number of studies have shown the limitations of current system development practices for meeting these recommendations. This document describes ways that the analysis of the potential impact of software failures (regardless of cause) can be incorporated into development and acquisition practices through the use of software assurance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA609884

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Ellison

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Analgesia
  • Application Software
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Systems
  • Reliability
  • Software Assurance
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design