Volume 6, Number 2 - Software Quality Assurance

Characterizing Software Dependability from Multiple Stakeholders Perspective Footnotes and References

Footnote

* This work has been performed in the context of the NASA funded High Dependability Computing Project (http://hdcp.org/), through NASA cooperative agreement NCC2-1968.

** By failure, we mean that either the software crashes, the user is disconnected, or a feature does not perform as expected.

References

[1] Basili, V. R., Caldiera, G., and Rombach, D. H. "The Goal Question Metric Approach", Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, 2 Volume Set Willey, pp.528-532, 1994

[2] For more information on this method, readers can refer to R. Clemen, T. Reilly, Making Hard Decisions with Decision Tools, Duxbury Thomson, 2001.