CAREER: Techniques and Tools for Early Measurement and Improvement of Software Reliability

9733588天本研究项目将软件可靠性工程和软件度量相结合，提出了一种软件可靠性早期度量和改进的综合方法。主要的研究活动包括：1)整合软件可靠性工程和软件度量的研究成果，以评估和改进扩展的开发阶段和应用领域的软件质量。2)开发分析技术和工具，有效地分析各种测量数据。3)与几个行业合作伙伴合作，实际实施这种综合方法，并使其适应各种软件开发环境。(4)发展或加强多个软件工程和计算机科学的研究生和本科生课程。这个研究项目的主要好处包括：(1)一种系统的技术，用于在开发早期测量软件质量，并识别早期问题，以便有效地提高质量；(2)构建支持工具，帮助这些技术在行业中的实施和部署；以及(3)为学生提供教育机会，从事解决实际问题的前沿研究项目。***

9733588 Tian This research project combines software reliability engineering and software measurement to develop an integrated approach to early measurement and improvement of software reliability. Key research activities include: 1) Integrating research findings in software reliability engineering and software measurement to assess and improve software quality over extended development phases and application domains. 2) Developing analysis techniques and tools to effectively analyze diverse measurement data. 3) Practical implementation of this integrated approach and adaptation of it to a wide variety of software development environments in collaboration with several industrial partners. (4) Developing or enhancing several graduate and undergraduate level courses in software engineering and computer science. The key benefits of this research project include: (1) a systematic technique to measure software quality early in development and to identify early problems for effective quality improvement, (2) construction of support tools that can help the implementation and deployment of these techniques in industry, and (3) educational opportunities for students to work on leading edge research projects that solve practical problems. ***