An Approach of Trustworthy Measurement Allocation Based on Sub-Attributes of Software

Hongwei Tao, Hengyang Wu and Yixiang Chen
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Hongwei Tao: College of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450002, China
Hengyang Wu: MoE Engineering Center for Software/Hardware Co-Design Technology and Application, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Yixiang Chen: MoE Engineering Center for Software/Hardware Co-Design Technology and Application, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Mathematics, 2019, vol. 7, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Measurement of software trustworthiness is an important research field in the software engineering, which is very useful for analyzing the software quality. In this paper, we propose a mathematical programming approach to allocate the trustworthy degree to each sub-attribute of some software attribute appropriately and then to make the trustworthy degree of this attribute maximize under some constraint conditions. Some sufficient or necessary conditions for analyzing this mathematical programming problem are investigated. Moreover, a polynomial allocation algorithm is given for computing the optimal solution of this mathematical programming. Finally, an example is given in order to show the significance of this work. The results obtained here are useful for improving the software quality by adjusting the trustworthy degree of each sub-attribute under the same cost.

Keywords: trustworthy software; trustworthy attribute; trustworthy measurement; allocation for software trustworthiness; allocation for software attribute trustworthiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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