Qualitative Software Reliability Requirements: Concept, Classification and Practical Elicitation Methods

  • Cong Pan
  • , Minyan Lu*
  • , Hong Zhang
  • , Biao Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Software reliability requirements are specified at the software requirement phase to describe software reliability considerations, which are the key to ensuring software reliability, therefore gaining increasing importance. Qualitative software reliability requirements, as an essential part of software reliability requirements, reflect the idea that software reliability should be designed into software products at an early stage. However, from current engineering practices, the concept of qualitative software reliability requirements remains unclear, and qualitative software reliability requirements elicitation is still inadequate. To solve the issues above, this paper puts forward the definition of qualitative software reliability requirements, classification of qualitative software reliability requirements, and a practical qualitative software reliability requirements elicitation strategy as well as methods, which are used to support guidance of qualitative software reliability requirements elicitation process. A case study of a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrates the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion, QRS-C 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages164-171
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781538678398
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Aug 2018
Event18th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion, QRS-C 2018 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 16 Jul 201820 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion, QRS-C 2018

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion, QRS-C 2018
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period16/07/1820/07/18

Keywords

  • Qualitative software reliability requirements
  • Qualitative software reliability requirements classification
  • Qualitative software reliability requirements elicitation

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