A Measurement Model for Trustworthy Software Based on Trusted Evidences

Abstract

Software trustworthiness is an important area of software reliability. How to measure it is a challenging. This paper aims at developing a new measurement model of software trustworthiness. For this propose, we first define the trusted evidence as a program unit or element which causes the untrustworthy. Then, we classify them and propose a measurement model to measure the degree of software trustworthiness. Finally, a case study is given to show the validity of the proposed model.