TRUSTIE: Design of a Trustworthy Software Production Environment

Internet fundamentally changes the model of software development, the demands of software quality, and the process of software resource sharing. Internet- based environment for trustworthy software production is recognized as a key topic of software engineering in both academic and software industry. In this paper, the concepts and models of trustworthy software are introduced which dominate the design of Trustie environment. Trustie provides trustworthy software components sharing by an evolving software repository, and provides collaborative software development in a customizable development platform powered by a software production line framework. Finally the layered practices of research and application based on Trustie preliminarily demonstrate the effectiveness as well as the promising future of this environment.