Software Metrics

and Reliability
Summery:
The IEEE describes dependableness by means of "The aptitude of an organization
before different portion toward achieve the situation wanted meanings beneath
uttered situations intended aimed at a nominative quantity of your period." To
maximum plan and cipher expansion bosses, dependableness stands associated to
exactness, that stands, they look to taxing besides also the variability of "bugs"
start and trapped. But result and protective viruses open in testing is critical to
assure dependableness, a far better approach is to develop a strong, top quality
product through all of the stages of the code lifecycle. That is, the dependableness
of the delivered code is expounded to the standard of all of the processes and
merchandise of code development; the wants papers, the code, examination
strategies, and testing. Software dependableness isn't further outlined as hardware
dependableness, though the code Statement Knowledge Center (SATC) at National
Aeronautics and Space Administration is effort to spot and apply metrics to code
merchandise that endorse and evaluate dependableness. This paper discusses
however National Aeronautics and Space Management comes, in conjunction with
the SATC, square measure applying code metrics to improvement the normal and
dependableness of code crop. Dependableness could be a by-product of quality,
and code quality are often slow. We’ll prove however these quality metrics assist
within the examination of code dependableness. We tend to conclude with a quick
discussion of the metrics being applied by the SATC to gauge the dependableness.

Reference:
Rosenberg, Linda, Ted Hammer, and Jack Shaw. "Software metrics and reliability." 9th international
symposium on software reliability engineering. 1998.