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This paper addresses 30 major challenges faced by reliability engineers and managers in their work. The paper's title reflects problems and approaches collectively developed by four long-time members of an engineering services company upon the occasion of its 30th anniversary. These challenges are common in the Reliability/Safety/Maintenance Engineering community but not everyone recognizes them as...
Quality, Timeliness and Reliability are key parameters to meet the business goals of any organization. Each parameter plays an important role in terms of making the product effective, reliable and is released to market for use on time. Quality, Timeliness and Reliability (QTR) are the most important KPIs (key performance indicator) used for improving operational excellence. Various measures (e.g....
The effective assessment of organizational reliability, maintainability and supportability (RMS) engineering capability has an important significance to improving organizational RMS work level. For the problem of organizational RMS engineering capability assessment being complex, and many indexes being fuzzy and difficult to be defined the value and weight, a method based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy...
Attribute information such as age, gender, and job is used in user registration and questionnaires.A verifier must consider what method to use for confirming attribute information when it is used online.For instance,the reliability of the information varies with the method:the verifier can accept the user's claim,confirm by certificate,confirm face-to-face or use other methods. Therefore, the reliability...
Accuracy of the functional size is critical in software project management, since functional size is the most prevalent input for effort and cost estimation models. Functional size measurement is performed based on standardized manuals; however, the accuracy of FSM results is still based on the knowledge and cautions of the measurers. In this study we performed a multiple case study to identify the...
Software quality assurance (SQA) is becoming a critical issue in software development and maintenance. Software development organizations are dedicating significant resources to testing as their contribution to SQA. This paper discusses the existing organizational approaches to implementing testing practices. Nowadays, software development organizations are beginning to outsource the testing-related...
A failure modes and effects analysis is a methodology for analysis of potential failure modes within a system which includes the classification of the failure modes severity and impact on the system. Most organizations stop at the completion of the FMEA and assume that the work is done and a solid design will now be created. It is not always the case. There is a significant amount of work that needs...
In a competitive business landscape, large organizations such as insurance companies and banks are under high pressure to innovate, improvise and distinguish their products and services while continuing to reduce the time-to market for new product introductions. Generating a single view of the customer is vital from different perspectives of the systems developer over a period of time because of the...
With the increasing demand of software capabilities in both business and government operations, building trustworthy software become critical for the success of the organization. However, the growth of Internet throws different kinds of malicious and/or unintentional threats into the mix by providing endless points of attacks that threatens the dependency of software running on the network for distributed...
Many scholars believe that enterprises should continue to improve their management capacity, especially in an increasingly volatile environment. Management capability in enterprises includes operational flexibility, structural flexibility and strategic flexibility, only different environments match different types of flexibilities, enterprise performance can be improved. Through the investigation...
In order to get the influence degree imposed on human resource management by cultural differences within strategic alliance of transnational enterprise, a special questionnaire is specially designed, and the results is analyzed so as to get the measuring value of influence. Empirical research shows that differences in systematic culture, operation idea, operation mode, and values within strategic...
In many organizations, the quality of newly developed code is measured after the code is shipped. In this paper, strategies are defined using modeling techniques to improve/determine the quality of the code during the different stages of the software life cycle. The management and implementation of the software process (which is looked at as following three major phases) is outlined together with...
We present a practical, systematical method for the evaluation of the soft error rate (SER) of microelectronic devices. Existing methodologies, practices and tools are integrated in a common approach while highlighting the need for specific data or tools. The showcased method is particularly adapted for evaluating the SER of very complex microelectronic devices by engineers confronted to increasingly...
Classical methods of accepting or rejecting products, which are not generally known by the software reliability community, are used as a baseline for developing test criteria. Testing criteria are designed to estimate the number of tests, and associated fault removal, that would result in reduced risk and increased reliability to the point where the software can be deployed. For the purpose of experimenting...
GUI (Graphical User Interface) testing plays an important role in ensuring the correctness and reliability of software applications. To perform GUI testing, a test script must be prepared (or generated by tools) so that massive user interactions and verifications can be conducted automatically. Ideally, the actions of a test script should be organized based on the structure of the GUI so that the...
An organizational level test strategy needs to incorporate metrics to make the testing activities visible and available to process improvements. The majority of testing measurements that are done are based on faults found in the test execution phase. In contrast, this paper investigates metrics to support software test planning and test design processes. We have assembled metrics in these two process...
Due to the increasing complexity of Web systems, security testing is becoming a critical activity to guarantee the respect of such systems to their security requirements. To challenge this issue, we rely in this paper on model based active testing. We first specify the Web system behavior using IF formalism. Second, we integrate security rules -modeled in Nomad language- within this IF model using...
The UNICORE grid system provides a seamless, secure and intuitive access to distributed grid resources. In recent years, UNICORE 5 is used as a well-tested grid middleware system in production grids (e.g. DEISA, D-Grid) and at many supercomputer centers world-wide. Beyond this production usage, UNICORE serves as a solid basis in many European and International research projects and business scenarios...
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