Software Reliability Training And Consulting Services
Released on = December 1, 2006, 8:20 am
Press Release Author = OpsAlaCarte
Industry = Industrial
Press Release Summary = Ops A La Carte offers software reliability training and consulting services that integrate with the above approaches to produce better results. Our training and consulting services focus directly on the practices of software and test engineers.
Press Release Body = Software Reliability Integration for the Organization :: Software Reliability Assessment :: Software Development Best Practices Assessment
Software Reliability Integration in the Concept Phase :: Software Reliability Goal Setting :: Software Reliability Program and Integration Plan
Software Reliability Integration in the Design Phase :: Facilitation of Team Design Template Reviews :: Facilitation of Team Design Reviews :: Software Failure Analysis :: Software Fault Tolerance
Software Reliability Integration in the Implementation Phase :: Facilitation of Code Reliability Reviews :: Software Robustness and Coverage Testing Techniques
Software Reliability Integration in the Testing Phase :: Software Reliability Measurements and Metrics :: Usage Profile-based Testing :: Software Reliability Estimation Techniques :: Software Reliability Demonstration Tests
Software Reliability Integration for the Organization Before assisting with specific programs, we recommend that an organization assess its development practices against industry best practices to ensure they have a solid foundation upon which to integrate our reliability services. If necessary, we will help an organization fill in gaps by identifying existing, internal best practices and tools to yield the desired results. Then, we help define a set of reliability practices to move defect prevention and detection as far upstream of the development cycle as possible.
Software Reliability Integration in the Concept Phase In the concept phase, the software team should be able to assist in defining system level reliability and availability software goals, which are different from hardware goals. These goals become part of the overall Reliability Program and Integration Plan and are applied to the design and testing phases.
Software Reliability Integration in the Design Phase In the design phase, group pre-design review meetings provide engineers with forums to expand their knowledge base of design techniques by exchanging design templates. Design inspection results will be greatly improved if they are preceded by brief, informal reviews that are highly-interactive at multiple points throughout the progression from system architecture through low-level design. Prior to the final stage of design, software failure analysis is used to identify core and vulnerable sections of the software which may benefit from additional run-time protection by incorporating software fault tolerance techniques.
Software Reliability Integration in the Implementation Phase In the implementation phase, reliability reviews target only the core and vulnerable sections of code to allow the owner of the source code to develop sufficient synergy with a small team of developers in finding defects. Unit testing efforts focus on efficient detection of software faults using robustness and coverage testing techniques for through module-level testing.
Software Reliability Integration in the Testing Phase In the system testing phase, reliability measurements and metrics are used to track the number of remaining software defects, the software MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) and to anticipate when the software is ready for deployment. The test engineers will be able to apply usage profiling mechanisms to emphasize test cases based on their anticipated frequency of execution in the field.
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