Software reliability growth process-a life cycle approach

The author presents a life-cycle cost-reduction technique to achieve rapid growth rate in software reliability growth. He points out the deficiencies in the current practices in the hardware reliability growth process and how to overcome such weaknesses in software engineering. It is suggested that fixing errors in software introduces a negative growth because the programmer may not know which paths are affected by the change. The best way to accelerate the software reliability and maintenance growth is to identify engineering changes in the early design phases. The ATAF program tends to minimize risks and lower life-cycle costs significantly