Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, and are not limited to:
- Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software reliability
- Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability
- Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures
- Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting)
- Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay with safety/security
- Reliability of software services
- Reliability of open source software
- Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Reliability of software dealing with Big Data
- Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software
- Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems
- Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive, green and sustainable, mobile systems)
- Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things, Cloud, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization, Blockchain)
- Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability
- Societal aspects of software reliability