METRIC SUITE FOR DIRECTING THE FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Guido Menkhaus, Brigitte Andrich

2005

Abstract

Studies have found that reworking defective requirements, design, and code typically consumes up to 50 percent of the total cost of software development. A defect has a high impact when it has been inserted in the design and is only detected in a later phase of a project. This increases project cost, time and may even jeopardize the success of a project. More time needs to be spent on analysis of the design of the project. When analysis techniques are applied on the design of a software system, the primary objective is to anticipate potential scenarios of failure in the system. The detection of defects that may cause failures and the correction is more cost effective in the early phases of the software lifecycle, whereas testing starts late and defects found during testing may require massive rework. In this article, we present a metric suite that guides the analysis during the risk assessment of failure modes. The computation of the metric suite bases on Simulink models. We provide tool support for this activity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Menkhaus G. and Andrich B. (2005). METRIC SUITE FOR DIRECTING THE FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 266-273. DOI: 10.5220/0002519902660273

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Guido Menkhaus and Brigitte Andrich},
title={METRIC SUITE FOR DIRECTING THE FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={266-273},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002519902660273},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - METRIC SUITE FOR DIRECTING THE FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Menkhaus G.
AU - Andrich B.
PY - 2005
SP - 266
EP - 273
DO - 10.5220/0002519902660273