Trustworthy Software Systems
I attended a great lecture by Professor Larry Bernstein of the Stevens Institute of Technology. More on Professor Bernstein can be found at his site.
The topic of the presentation was “Trustworthy Software Systems”. Professor Bernstein is a great speaker and shows genuine enthusiasm for his work. He defines trustworthy software as being safe, reliable and secure. On one slide, he defines these terms as:
safe – does no harm reliable – no crashes or unexpected behavior secure – no hacking possible
He points out that the requirements which make a system trustworthy are non-functional.
He referred the audience several time to “Trustworthy Systems Through Quantitative Software Engineering 