System and software assurance — rationalizing governance, engineering practice, and engineering economics

This paper discusses rationalizing governance, engineering practice, and engineering economics to produce conformant systems that meet their quality attribute targets for system and software assurance in an optimal, cost-effective fashion. It begins with a description of the governance landscape and addresses defining and trading off system quality characteristics, models for assessing the cost and value of software assurance, addressing multi-dimensional risk, and the delivery of value to the organization, its customers, and its stakeholders.