IEEE 982-2024 ✓ Most Recent

This standard identifies, classifies, and defines measures of the software aspects of in-service dependability. As such, it provides a framework for stakeholders to understand the software aspects of dependability and to make dependability measurements throughout the system life cycle. It provides definitions, requirements, and guidance for the data collection and analysis necessary to make consistent and actionable measurements of a software system’s reliability, availability, supportability, and recoverability. This standard is applicable to any software system or service. It is particularly useful for critical systems where the reliability of their safety, security, functionality, performance, and utilization, as well as recoverability, supportability, and availability are foremost. Examples of critical systems include those supplying communications infrastructure, first responder services, energy production and distribution, real time financial transactions, medical devices, health care administrative services, defense capabilities, personal and mass transportation, environmental monitoring, and water and waste management.