Title: A generic model for the specification of software reliability requirements and measurement of their functional size

Authors: Kenza Meridji; Khalid T. Al-Sarayreh; Ahmad Al-Khasawneh

Addresses: Department of Software Engineering, Petra University, Amman 11196, Jordan ' Hashemite University, Jordan ' Departments of Software Engineering and Computer Information System, Hashemite University, Zarqa 13115, Jordan

Abstract: Currently, ISO-9126 standards for the software product quality include reliability as one of the quality characteristics for the embedded and real time software products. According to ISO, software reliability requirements can be measured internally and externally. Furthermore, ECSS standards focus on the reliability prediction of components. It allows identifying data sources and respective methods for an application. This paper presents a method for measuring the functional size of the reliability requirements of software product. The proposed method suggests a generic measurement model to locate the functional size of the reliability requirements. This functional size is based on the concepts of the ISO-19761 standard, which allows to measure on the basis of the requirements, whether the software has already been delivered or to be built.

Keywords: reliability requirements; design of measurement method; ISO 19761; ISO 9126; ECSS standards; standard etalon; generic models; software reliability; modelling; software product quality; software quality.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIQ.2013.054279

International Journal of Information Quality, 2013 Vol.3 No.2, pp.139 - 163

Received: 20 Nov 2012
Accepted: 22 Jan 2013
Published online: 26 Jul 2014 *

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