Track 1 Session 12
1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Thursday June 11, 2009

Software Reliability Assessment: Achievements and Challenges

Software reliability modeling has been around for over twenty-five years. Numerous publications, conferences and various standards have been developed to deal with the problem of data collection, software reliability assessment and implementation within an organization. This presentation will deal with my own experiences within the military and the space industry in assessing the implementation and performance of software reliability models in these environments. I will discuss what I have learned including a tool called SMERFS^3 that was developed for software reliability assessment and the many challenges in making software reliability an integral part of software and system assessment.