Incorporating Cost-Benefit Analyses into Software Assurance Planning

  • Authors:
  • Martin S. Feather;Burton Sigal;Steven L. Cornford;Patrick Hutchinson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SEW '01 Proceedings of the 26th Annual NASA Goddard Software Engineering Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The objective is to use cost-benefit analyses to identify, for a given project, optimal sets of software assurance activities. Towards this end we have incorporated cost-benefit calculations into a risk management framework. The net result is the capability to rapidly explore the costs and benefits of sets of assurance decisions.We describe the cost-benefit aspects of our framework , and demonstrate them on a small illustrative example. We then address the issues raised by seeking to apply this approach to software assurance planning for large-scale software development efforts.