Reliability measurement: from theory to practice - IEEE Software

and budgets is growing. In response, reliability measurement has become a significant factor in quantitatively characterizing quality and determining when to release software on the basis of predetermined reliability objectives. In fact, some US Dept. of Defense organizations now require software reliability ineasurements. Motorola's World Wide Systems able as measured against an ever improving quality goal: customer expectations. Brettschneider claims that reliability measurement for release control, plus other initiatives, has in the last four years produced a hundredfold improvement in the number of defects per thousand lines of source code reported on released software. Despite similar testimonials, there