Groups, programs, and organizations interested in Software Reliability.
Bell Canada Software Reliability Laboratory (BSR) - BSR at the University of Waterloo was opened on October 26,1994. The laboratory was an outgrowth of previous research collaboration between Bell Canada, a major telecommunication service provider in Ontario and Quebec, and the University of Waterloo.
Their research focuses on two areas of reliability. The first is software supervision, which addresses ways of detecting failure in executing software. Secondly, we are looking at reliability in distributed systems. This examines issues related to systems using an unreliable communications medium such as the internet.
Center for Advanced Computing and Communication (CACC)
- The Center for Advanced Computing and Communication (CACC) is an industry/university/government cooperative research center at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and Duke University at Durham. CACC is sponsored jointly by NC State University, Duke University and participating government agencies and private corporations.
Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) - The Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) at City University is an independent Research Centre in the School of Informatics, founded in 1983.
CU Arcadia - Arcadia was a research project investigating tools and techniques to improve the software engineering process. The goal of the project was to support the creation of software engineering environments intended for the development, analysis, and maintenance of large, complex software systems.
High Integrity Software System Assurance (HISSA) - HISSA is a part of the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The HISSA project provides technology to produce high integrity, affordable software for productive use.
IEEE Reliability Society - The Society is concerned with the problems involved in attaining reliability, maintaining it through the life of the system or device, and measuring it. The Society is engaged in the engineering disciplines of hardware, software, and human factors. Principal focus is on aerospace, communications, components and hybrids, computers, industrial electronics, lasers and electro-optics, medical electronics, nuclear and fossil power systems, and transportation systems. Reliability is integral to Availability, Maintainability, Quality, and System Safety.
"IPL delivers software development, systems integration and consultancy services to customers who demand the highest standards of quality and dependability. We also develop leading edge testing tools that are used by software developers around the world.
Founded in 1979 and based in our wholly owned premises in the World Heritage City of Bath, UK, IPL now employs around 240 staff."
NASA's Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) - The Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) was established in 1992 as part of the Systems Reliability and Safety Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The SATC was founded with the intent to become a center of excellence in software assurance, dedicated to making measurable improvement in both the quality and reliability of software developed for NASA at GSFC. SATC is self-supported with internal funding coming from research and application of current software engineering techniques and tools. Research funding primarily originates at NASA headquarters and is administered by it's Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont, WV. Other support comes directly from development projects for direct collaboration and technical support.
Reliability Information Analysis Center - The Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), formerly known as the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), has served as a Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) for more than 35 years. As an IAC, the RIAC is a Center of Excellence and technical focal point for information, data, analysis, training, and technical assistance in the engineering fields of Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, and Interoperability (RMQSI).
Reliass - Based in Cams Hall, Fareham, England, Reliass is a service distirbutor of many software reliability, testing, and safety tools.
Software Quality Institute (SQI); the University of Texas at Austin - The Software Quality Institute (SQI) is a multidisciplinary partnership between The University of Texas at Austin and the software and information systems organizations in Texas. Its mission is to inform and educate software producers and software users at the local, state and national levels about issues vital to the production and application of high-quality software. Extensive training offered to software professionals includes 48-week Software Project Management Certificate Program. About 30 seminars a year are offered on a variety of topics, including quality issues, metrics, planning, testing, requirements gathering. Object-oriented topics are also offered, such as Unified Modeling Language, OO Design and Development, Java, etc.
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