SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Evidence-based Reliability Assessment of Software Product Lines

SHF：小型：协作研究：软件产品线基于证据的可靠性评估

• 批准号: 0916284
• 负责人: Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova
• 金额: $ 24.58万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0916284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; Small; Collaborative; Research; Evidence

This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and meets the requirements established in Section 2 of the White House Memorandum entitled, Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds, dated March 20, 2009. I also affirm, as the cognizant Program Officer, that the proposal does not support projects described in Section 1604 of Division A of the Recovery Act.This collaborative research will create techniques that improve the reliability of software product lines. A software product line is a family of software systems that share certain common features and differ according to a set of specified variations. Use of software product lines has grown rapidly in industry because such reuse reduces the cost of building new systems. Reliability is important to product-line developers since many product lines, such as mobile phones, industrial robots, and surgical imaging systems, require reliable operation. This project focuses on development of a rigorous framework for incremental assessment and prediction of software product line reliability (SPL-iRAP). The research has three major thrusts: (1) developing reliability modeling techniques for software product lines to handle the effects of variations and ongoing changes, (2) investigating the use of reliability models for prediction across the product line based on empirical data, and (3) quantifying the benefit of the reuse on software quality. The researchers will train students, particularly women and underrepresented groups, in software reliability techniques, create new curriculum units for teaching, and partner with industrial developers of product lines to demonstrate the new techniques.

该提案将使用 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供的资金进行授予，并符合 2009 年 3 月 20 日题为“确保负责任地支出复苏法案资金”的白宫备忘录第 2 节中规定的要求。作为认识到的项目官员，我还确认该提案不支持复苏 A 部门第 1604 节中描述的项目Act. 这项合作研究将创造 提高软件产品线可靠性的技术。软件产品线是一系列软件系统，它们具有某些共同的功能，但根据一组指定的变体而有所不同。软件产品线的使用在工业中迅速增长，因为这种重用降低了构建新系统的成本。可靠性对于产品线开发人员来说非常重要，因为许多产品线，例如手机、工业机器人和手术成像系统，都需要可靠的运行。该项目的重点是开发一个严格的框架，用于软件产品线可靠性的增量评估和预测（SPL-iRAP）。该研究有三个主要重点：(1) 开发软件产品线的可靠性建模技术，以处理变化和持续变化的影响；(2) 研究可靠性模型的使用，根据经验数据对整个产品线进行预测；(3) 量化重用对软件质量的好处。研究人员将对学生（特别是女性和弱势群体）进行软件可靠性技术方面的培训，创建新的教学课程单元，并与产品线的工业开发商合作展示新技术。