Software reliability has been regarded as one of the
most important quality attributes for software intensive
systems, especially in defense domain. As most of
weapon systems complicated functionalities and
controls are implemented by software which is
embedded in hardware systems, it became more
critical to assure high reliability for software itself.
However, many software development organizations in
Korea defense domain have had problems in
performing reliability engineered processes for
developing mission-critical and/or safety-critical
weapon systems. In this paper, we propose an effective
framework with which software organizations can
identify and select metrics associated software
reliability, analyze the collected data, appraise
software reliability, and develop software reliability
prediction/estimation model based on the result of data
analyses.