ISSRE Cares: How the Software Reliability Engineering Community Can Give Back to Society

Abstract

The reliability engineering community should consider undertaking activities that benefit society as an integral part of their major conferences such as ISSRE. The requirements engineering community adopted a philanthropic activity combining to assist an organization in the locale of the IEEE Requirements Engineering (RE) conference, called RE Cares. At the conference, a live requirements elicitation is performed. Then, developed artifacts are used by the open source community to continue development of the application. The reliability engineering community could adopt a similar model and serve the locale of their ISSRE conference via ISSRE Cares. Rather than requirements and prototyping, ISSRE Cares would perform reliability engineering of an important application that helps serve the public interest, by, for example, applying testing techniques and expertise.