Software & Security Assurance Metrics and methods for software certification

Our life has been affected by information technology. Software is used in most of our life even insome critical parts such as air traffic control or power plane to control very sensitive functions. Anymisfunctionality or bugs in unreliable software could hide and it may cause problem and make costeven takes lives. Connectivity and complexity are common in software production today and thesefactors make assuring and certifying software big challenge that needs more money and time. In thispaper, security and software certification and assurance have been considered and metrics which areused in this subject will cover and some techniques that reduce the effort of software evaluation willconsider more.

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Software Certification , Reliability , Software , Security , Software metrics