Reliability evaluation system based on software architecture

To enhance the quality of software and reduce the costs of software development, by studying the reliability evaluation based on software architecture, the reliability evaluation system is designed in this paper. In this system, the reliability evaluation oriented architecture description language (REAL) based on XML is proposed. Its main purpose is used to describe the software architecture in order to evaluate reliability of a given architecture. REAL focuses on the relationship among software architecture, reliability description and evaluation of components and sub-architecture. At the same time, a compiler tool based on REAL is developed for the reliability evaluation system based on software architecture in this paper. Finally, this system is tested successfully through an example.