IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter Vol. 60, No. 4. November 2014
Table of Contents
Front page:
President's Message
From the Editor
Society News:
Election of AdCom Members -- Awaiting Results
Announcing the Debut of the IEEE Reliability Digest
Status Update: 2014 IEEE Standards
Update of the RS Tutorial Certificate Program "Software Reliability"
VP Reports / Announcements
Technical VP: Status of Tech Committees and New 'Reliability Digest'
Publications VP: Call for Nominations: EIC, Transactions on Devices & Materials Reliability
Members & Chapters
Meetings & Conferences
Letters in Reliability
Comparative Analysis: Bayesian & Classical Approaches for S/W Reliability Measurement
Links:
Reliability Society Home
An Update of the RS Tutorial Certificate Program on Software Reliability
W. Eric Wong
Secretary
IEEE Reliability Society
In the last issue of the RS Newsletter (Vol. 60, No. 3, August 2014), we announced the launch of an RS Tutorial Certificate Program on Software Reliability. This is an initiative funded by the IEEE Future Directions Committee. The objective is to train the U.S. workforce for competence in selected topics that are essential for producing more reliable and trustworthy software in a cost-effective way. Those who attend the required number of tutorials sponsored by RS within two years of their first participation will receive a certificate signed by the President of the Reliability Society for their accomplishment.
The program has already been offered twice since then. The first time at QSIC 2014 (the 14th International Conference on Quality Software) on October 2 and 3 in Dallas, Texas, included:
- A Plenary Panel on Software Quality Assurance in Practice with panelists from MedAssets, NTT Data, IBM, Parker Aerospace, Medellin Applied Research Concepts, and the University of Texas at Dallas.
Figure 1. Panel discussion at QSIC 2014
- Two four-hour tutorials on Introduction to Software Reliability and its Application by Professor Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA and Dr. Allen Nikora, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA.
Figure 2. Part (a) Tutorial at QSIC 2014 by Professor Kishor Trivedi
Figure 2. Part (b) Tutorial at QSIC 2014 by Dr. Allen Nikora
There were more than 30 attendees. The PowerPoint slides and videos of the panel discussion and the tutorial presentation have been posted under a password-protected section at http://paris.utdallas.edu/rs-certificate. Refer to Figure 3 for more details.
Figure 3. A designated website for the RS Tutorial Certificate Program
The program was presented a second time at ISSRE 2014 (the 25th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering) on November 3 to 6 in Naples, Italy. To receive a certificate, a participant had to attend two of the following three tutorials:
- More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper: An Introduction to Software Reliability Engineering
Laurie Williams and Mladen Vouk - ODC - A 10x on Root Cause Analysis
Ram Chillarege - Advanced software reliability and availability models
Kishor Trivedi, Michael Grottke, Javier Alonso, and Allen Nikora
Figure 4. Tutorial at ISSRE 2014 by Dr. Ram Chillarege
The program will be offered again with an additional sponsorship of the RS Beijing Chapter at the Beihang University in Beijing on December 18, 2014.
Send all inquiries, including a request for the login of the website of the RS Tutorial Certificate Program, to Professor W. Eric Wong (ewong@utdallas.edu) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas.