Towards a New Framework of Software Reliability Measurement Based on Software Metrics

Measuring software reliability is one of the most important concerns for software engineers and decisions makers since if we can't measure it we can't master it. For engineers, the system reliability level can be used to measure the progress of system testing by comparing the current software failure intensity with the desired one. For decision makers,the system reliability level Guarantee better exploitation by the users therefore better customer satisfaction. A literature review shows a lack of studies focusing on the reliability measurement processes related to software development life cycle (SDLC). In this paper, our intention is to propose a thoroughly analysis of the software reliability measurement processes. Since the current software measurement trends are focusing on software metrics, we will propose a new framework of reliability measurement based on software metrics. This new framework is required by developers to assess their software reliability and by decision makers to make appropriate quality improvements.