Presentation 2017-07-28
The Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool (SFRAT)
Vidhyashree Nagaraju, Venkateswaran Shekar, Thierry Wandji, Lance Fiondella,
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Abstract(in English) This paper presents the application architecture of SFRAT, a free and open source application to promote the quantitative assessment of software reliability. SFRAT has been designed to serve as a single shared framework for collaborative research, experimentation, and use by practitioners. Unlike other tools, the SFRAT architecture enables the addition of existing software reliability models, promoting more systematic comparison of models than previously possible. The source code is accessible via a GitHub repository. The tool is presently being used by the United States Department of Defense to assess the reliability of software in Major Defense Acquisition Programs. Contributing to the tool will therefore enable software reliability researchers to reach high profile users of their results.
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Keyword(in English) Software reliability / software reliability growth model / open source tool / GitHub / R statistical programming language
Paper # R2017-19
Date of Issue 2017-07-21 (R)

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Committee R
Conference Date 2017/7/28(1days)
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Place (in English) Wakkanai Sun Hotel
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Chair Tetsushi Yuge(National Defense Academy)
Vice Chair Akira Asato(Fujitsu)
Secretary Akira Asato(Hosei Univ.)
Assistant Shinji Inoue(Kansai Univ.) / Hiroyuki Okamura(Hiroshima Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Reliability
Language ENG
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) The Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool (SFRAT)
Sub Title (in English) A Platform to Foster Collaboration
Keyword(1) Software reliability
Keyword(2) software reliability growth model
Keyword(3) open source tool
Keyword(4) GitHub
Keyword(5) R statistical programming language
1st Author's Name Vidhyashree Nagaraju
1st Author's Affiliation University of Massachusetts Dartmouth(Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
2nd Author's Name Venkateswaran Shekar
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Massachusetts Dartmouth(Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
3rd Author's Name Thierry Wandji
3rd Author's Affiliation Naval Air Systems Command(NAVAIR)
4th Author's Name Lance Fiondella
4th Author's Affiliation University of Massachusetts Dartmouth(Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Date 2017-07-28
Paper # R2017-19
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) R-161
Page pp.pp.31-36(R),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-07-21 (R)