{"title":"Software Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Engineering System (SOFT-RAMES)","authors":"B. Edson, B. Hansen, P. Larter","doi":"10.1109/RAMS.1996.500680","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Software Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Engineering System (SOFT-RAMES) has been developed for the Air Force Material Command Space Systems Support Group as a software reliability and maintainability engineering tool to aid in the management and implementation of a post deployment support process for mission computer software. Using failure, change, and source code data, it provides Pareto analyses, R&M trends and predictions, and checklists to identify problems and impacts of software changes. Initial results, and lessons learned are described, along with the capabilities of SOFT-RAMES. Important initial lessons learned are the need to calibrate metrics models to the application, a quantitative means to set metrics based design guidelines, and the usefulness of failure rate trends to investigate the effects of the underlying software change process on software reliability. SOFT-RAMES is implemented for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite operations centers mission software.","PeriodicalId":393833,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 1996 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.1996.500680","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Software Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Engineering System (SOFT-RAMES) has been developed for the Air Force Material Command Space Systems Support Group as a software reliability and maintainability engineering tool to aid in the management and implementation of a post deployment support process for mission computer software. Using failure, change, and source code data, it provides Pareto analyses, R&M trends and predictions, and checklists to identify problems and impacts of software changes. Initial results, and lessons learned are described, along with the capabilities of SOFT-RAMES. Important initial lessons learned are the need to calibrate metrics models to the application, a quantitative means to set metrics based design guidelines, and the usefulness of failure rate trends to investigate the effects of the underlying software change process on software reliability. SOFT-RAMES is implemented for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite operations centers mission software.