This International Standard addresses the issues concerning software aspects of
dependability and gives guidance on achievement of dependability in software performance
influenced by management disciplines, design processes and application environments. It
establishes a generic framework on software dependability requirements, provides a software
dependability process for system life cycle applications, presents assurance criteria and
methodology for software dependability design and implementation and provides practical
approaches for performance evaluation and measurement of dependability characteristics in
software systems.
This standard is applicable for guidance to software system developers and suppliers, system
integrators, operators and maintainers and users of software systems who are concerned with
practical approaches and application engineering to achieve dependability of software
products and systems.