An approach of automatically performing Fault Tree Analysis and failure mode and effect techniques to software processes

In practice, engineers find that software quality depends heavily on the maturity and reliability of the software process. Therefore, organizations are placing increased attentions on finding an efficient way of integrating elements of software process in order to produce high quality software with lower cost and risk. Various kinds of techniques are used to manage, monitor and analyze software process. We proposed an idea of modeling software process in Little-JIL language, and then introduce automatic Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) technique and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) technique, two fully-fledged and widely used safety analysis techniques, to analyze software process. Results of these two techniques can be combined to improve software process, which may lead to software products with higher quality and reliability, also lower cost and risk.