Paul E. Black,
SAMATE's Contribution to Information Assurance,
IAnewsletter,
9(2):4-7, Fall 2006.
- Abstract:
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The amount of software in today's information world is far too large
to check manually. Automated tools are a must. These tools can help
design and build the right software in the first place, but they can
also help if the system being designed includes contract software. The
NIST Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project
seeks to help develop standard evaluation measures and methods for
software assurance. This article outlines how SAMATE is developing a
taxonomy of tools and techniques, helping develop a taxonomy of
weaknesses, developing test matter and procedures for classes of
tools, and an on-line, publicly available reference dataset of
thousands of samples of flawed software. SAMATE is also embarking on
studies and experiments to quantify software assurance.
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