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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