NDLI: When does it pay to make software more reliable?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Stoker, E. Dugan, J.B.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Virginia Univ., USA (Stoker, E.; Dugan, J.B.)
Abstract	Substantial work has been done in the area of software fault analysis, prediction and evaluation. Some work considers the relationship between failures and cost. Unfortunately, current work does not address the issues of revenues, return on investment, or time-value of money. These shortcomings limit the usefulness and acceptance of software reliability within industry. To address these shortcomings, we have developed an economic reliability analysis (ERA) framework at the University of Virginia, that fuses reliability engineering methods with economic analysis. We introduce the ERA framework to the software reliability community and fuse it with the Musa/Okumoto NHPP software reliability model to estimate the economic impact of operational software faults. This framework defines a set of economic vectors that are calculated using the software reliability model along with a few additional financial elements. This extended software reliability model is then used to evaluate an operational software system with three different proposed software upgrades. All four software systems are analyzed and compared. This analysis provides a more complete method to apply software reliability modeling techniques to existing software systems and proposed design changes.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. IEEE Reliability Soc
Starting Page	321
Ending Page	331
File Size	442397
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769520073
ISSN	10719458
DOI	10.1109/ISSRE.2003.1251053
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-11-17
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Cost function Software reliability Software systems Economic forecasting Investments Fuses Reliability engineering Business process re-engineering Software design Finance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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