1、 IEEE Recommended Practice on Software Reliability Sponsored by the Standards Committee IEEE 3 Park Avenue New York, NY 10016-5997 USA IEEE Reliability Society IEEE Std 1633-2016 (Revision of IEEE Std 1633-2008) IEEE Std 1633-2016 (Revision of IEEE Std 1633-2008) IEEE Recommended Practice on Softwar
2、e Reliability Sponsor Standards Committee of the IEEE Reliability Society Approved 22 September 2016 IEEE-SA Standards Board Abstract: The methods for assessing and predicting the reliability of software, based on a life-cycle approach to software reliability engineering (SRE), are prescribed in thi
3、s recommended practice. It provides information necessary for the application of software reliability (SR) measurement to a project, lays a foundation for building consistent methods, and establishes the basic principle for collecting the data needed to assess and predict the reliability of software
4、. The recommended practice prescribes how any user can participate in SR assessments and predictions. Keywords: IEEE 1633, software failure modes, software reliability The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5997, USA Copyright 2017 by The Instit
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34、EEE Standards Association. Copyright 2017 IEEE. All rights reserved. 5 Participants At the time this IEEE recommended practice was completed, the IEEE 1633 Working Group had the following membership: Ann Marie Neufelder, Chair Martha Wetherholt, Vice Chair Debra Haehn, Secretary Lou Gullo, Sponsor C
35、hair Jacob Axman Bakul Banerjee David Bernreuther Nematollah Bidokhti Robert Binder Sonya Davis Mary Ann DeCicco Lance Fiondella Willie Fitzpatrick Kevin Frye Loren Garroway Richard E. Gibbs III Michael Grottke Darwin Heiser Nathan Herbert Claire Jones Burdette Joyner Ahlia T. Kitwana Peter Lakey Mi
36、ng Li Andy Long Debra Greenhalgh Lubas Andrew Mack Franklin Marotta Kevin Mattos Brian McQuillan Rajesh Murthy Allen Nikora Mark Ofori-kyei Robert Raygan Ying Shi Marty Shooman Mark Sims Michael Siok Shane Smith George Stark Kishor Trivedi Thierry Wandji Martin Wayne Yuan Wei Harry White The followi
37、ng members of the individual balloting committee voted on this recommended practice. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention. Johann Amsenga Bakul Banerjee Pieter Botman Bill Brown Keith Chow Paul Croll Sonya Davis Mary Ann DeCicco Neal Dowling Richard Doyle Lance Fiondella
38、 Debra Greenhalgh Randall Groves Louis Gullo Debra Haehn Jon Hagar Werner Hoelzl Bernard Homes Noriyuki Ikeuchi Cheryl Jones Piotr Karocki Chad Kiger Ahlia Kitwana Edward McCall Jeffrey Moore Rajesh Murthy Andrew Nack Ann Marie Neufelder Michael Newman Mark Ofori-Kyei Howard Penrose Iulian Profir St
39、ephen Schwarm Jeremy Smith Thomas Starai Eugene Stoudenmire Walter Struppler Eric Thibodeau Martha Wetherholt Paul Work Daidi Zhong 6 Copyright 2017 IEEE. All rights reserved. When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this recommended practice on 22 September 2016, it had the following membership: J
40、ean-Philippe Faure, Chair Ted Burse, Vice Chair John D. Kulick, Past Chair Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary Chuck Adams Masayuki Ariyoshi Stephen Dukes Jianbin Fan Ronald W. Hotchkiss J. Travis Griffith Gary Hoffman Michael Janezic Joseph L. Koepfinger* Hung Ling Kevin Lu Gary Robinson Annette D.
41、 Reilly Mehmet Ulema Yingli Wen Howard Wolfman Don Wright Yu Yuan Daidi Zhong *Member Emeritus 7 Copyright 2017 IEEE. All rights reserved. Introduction This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 1633-2016, IEEE Recommended Practice on Software Reliability. Software is, from a materials viewpoint, bot
42、h malleable and ductile. This means there are multiple ways to introduce failures, intentional and un-intentional. Fixing a software defect can introduce a potential defect. In many cases the failures that result from software defects are both predictable and avoidable but they still occur because o
43、f the following: a) Lack of available calendar time/resources to find all of the defects that can result in failures b) Exceedingly complex event driven systems that are difficult to conceptualize and therefore implement and test c) Organizational culture that neglects to support sufficient rigor, s
44、kills, or methods required to find the defects d) Technical decisions that result in incorrect architecture or design decision that cannot support the stakeholders specifications e) Insufficient project or risk management that leads to schedule delays that lead to less time for reliability testing f
45、) OperationsContract issues, interoperability due to bad specifications and stakeholder communications Even a small number of software failures can lead to monetary catastrophes such as a cancelled project. Hardware (HW) failures can be random, due to wear-out or the result of a systematic design fl
46、aw. Reliability maintainability availability (RMA) is used to prevent and deal with hardware failures. Software failures may result from systematic flaws in the requirements, design, code or interfaces. Hence, software failure does not require an RMA but instead a corrective action to an existing in
47、stallation. Software failures can be common cause failures in that the same failure mode can cause multiple failures in more than one part of the software. Software reliability engineering (SRE) is an established discipline that can help organizations improve the reliability of their products and pr
48、ocesses. It is important for an organization to have a process discipline if it is to produce high reliability software. These are specific practices and recommendations, each of which has a context within the software engineering life cycle. A specific practice may be implemented or used in a parti
49、cular stage of the life cycle or used across several stages. Figure 1 shows how the focus of SRE shifts as a project progresses from inception to release. The size of each bubble on this figure corresponds to how much the particular SRE practices are being executed during each particular phase of development or operation. For example in software engineering projects, the failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically performed earlier in the life cycle. 8 Copyright 2017 IEEE. All rights reserved. Figure 1 SRE focus by stage The scope of this recommended practic
