Process Trustworthiness as a Capability Indicator for Measuring and Improving Software Trustworthiness

  • Authors:

  • Ye Yang;Qing Wang;Mingshu Li

  • Affiliations:

  • Lab for Internet Software Technology, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZhongGuanCun, Beijing, China 100190;Lab for Internet Software Technology, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZhongGuanCun, Beijing, China 100190;Lab for Internet Software Technology, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZhongGuanCun, Beijing, China 100190

  • Venue:
  • ICSP '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process: Trustworthy Software Development Processes
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Due to increasing system decentralization, component heterogeneity, and interface complexities, many trustworthiness challenges become more and more complicated and intertwined. Moreover, there is a lack of common understanding of software trustworthiness and its related development methodology. This paper reports preliminary results from an ongoing collaborative research project among 6 international research units, which aims at exploring theories and methods for enhancing existing software process techniques for trustworthy software development. The results consist in two parts: 1) the proposal of a new concept of Process Trustworthiness, as a capability indicator to measure the relative degree of confidence for certain software processes to deliver trustworthy software; and 2) the introduction of the architecture of a Trustworthy Process Management Framework (TPMF) toolkit for process runtime support in measuring and improving process trustworthiness in order to assess and assure software trustworthiness.