ABSTRACT
The Alvey software reliability modelling project is a multi-tasked project consisting of a collaborative team from UK industry and academia. Over the duration of the project, the membership has consisted of the National Centre of Systems Reliability (AEA Technology), British Aerospace, STC, Logica, Nottingham Polytechnic and City and Newcastle Universities. The objectives of the software reliability modelling project were to investigate a wide variety of methods, to judge the relative merits of each method, to effectively communicate the results of the research and to indicate the direction of future research. The project consisted of a number of tasks of which this paper describes areas in which Nottingham Polytechnic were task leaders; these are task 3 (statistical models with explanatory variables), task 4 (statistical models with different underlying assumptions) and task 9 (data collection and initial analysis).
