Description
Reliable Software and Software FMEA Bootcamp
This course covers the steps for performing a software FMEA as well as dozens of software reliability failure modes and root causes related to the requirements, interface design, detailed design and code, vulnerabilities, corrective actions, serviceability, usability and processes.
If you’re involved in software design or development, you must consider potential failure modes in the software. This course will teach you how to identify potential failure modes in software and mitigate the risk to improve software reliability.
This course will enable you to perform a Failure Modes Effects Analysis, which will provide you with the data necessary to improve the reliability of your software.
After this three-day course, you will also be armed with the following skills to aid you in improving software reliability at your organization:
- The purpose of the software failure modes effects analysis
- How to analyze the software failure modes and root causes
- How to identify the riskiest parts of the software
- How to identify preventive measures
- And more!
You will learn that systems failures can result from faulty requirements, design, code, corrective actions, user instructions (or lack thereof), installation scripts, and vulnerabilities. The failure modes and root causes apply to both commercial and defense applications of any size. You will also discover the basics about the importance of performing reliability analyses and how they apply to product/system design and production.
Course Outline
Prerequisites:
Students do not need to have a background in software engineering or reliability engineering.
Agenda:
1.5 days: Failure and defect analysis and prediction
Reliable Software Metrics
- How software fails
- Workshop with real software failure data. Learn how to spot the defects that lead to the most downtime.
- How to predict risk level (defect density), escaped defects, arrival rate of failures from defects, defect pileup, time to first occurrence, MTBSF, P(success), Downtime, and Availability – before the code is even written.
- Workshop with a real project
- Difference between MTBF and MTBSF
- How to forecast risk level, escaped defects, arrival rate of failures from defects, defect pileup, time to first occurrence, MTBSF, P(success), Downtime and Availability – during testing from failure data.
- Workshop with a real set of failure data from testing
- How to Navigate the IEEE 1633 2016 and the new IEEE 1633 2026
1.5 days
Effective Software FMEA
- Understand where software failures originate (i.e. mostly requirements and design)
- Understand why process assessments and safety assessments don’t find the hidden failure modes.
- Understand the failure mode categories – faulty state management, error handling, timing, sequencing, processing, data definition, functionality, algorithm, etc.
From this point onward, we will apply everything we learn on a real mission and a safety-critical software-intensive system.
- Understand where to start the failure modes analysis. Note: it’s not at the CSCI, “shall statement” or code level.
- Understand why the “CSCI black box”, “shall statement” and “code level” FMEAs are a waste of time.
- Understand how to work through the Common Defect Enumeration in conjunction with industry FMEA standards such as SAE 1025, IEEE 1633 and AIAG VDA.
- Understand how to objectively assess occurrence. Understand why you don’t use piece part failure rates for specific failure mode occurrences.
- Understand how to mitigate the failure modes
- Generate a critical items list and track to closure
Group Discount
Groups of three or more receive a 10% discount, and groups of 5 or more receive a 15% discount. This discount is separate from the early bird discount. To get the group discount, all registrants must be registered at the same time but not necessarily the same course.
Contact Reliability@quanterion.com to ask for a coupon for a group discount.
Note: Group discounts cannot be combined with early bird discounts.
Hotel Reservations/Room Rates
Hotel Venue
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Orlando-Disney Springs Area
2305 Hotel Plaza Boulevard
Orlando, FL 32830
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Orlando – Disney Springs® Area
The hotel is holding a limited block of rooms for this course. Please make your reservations by Saturday, October 3, 2026 to receive your group rate.
Booking link:
https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/quanterion-solutions-2026/
Reservations made after this date will be subject to prevailing rates and availability. Reservations may also be made by calling 1-877-667-7207 and reference Group Code 903.
Provided Reliability Resources
Students will receive a copy of the popular publication titled “Effective Application of Software Failure Modes Effects Analysis,” a $125 value.
Students also have the option to purchase “Effective Application of Software Failure Modes Effects Analysis & Software FMEA Toolkit Bundle – 2nd Edition” directly from the instructor, Ann Marie Neufelder, at the training session for a reduced price of $299, a $100 discount.
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Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received more than fifteen (15) business days prior to the course start date are fully refundable. Cancellations received less than fifteen ( 15) business days prior to the course start date are not refundable and are subject to the entire registration fee, which can be applied towards a future offering of any Quanterion Solutions Incorporated (QSI) “Open” training course of the same value. Please note that if you do not cancel and do not attend, you are still responsible for the registration fee.
QSI reserves the right to cancel training courses at any time up to two (2) weeks prior to the start date. In the event that QSI cancels, all registration fees will be refunded in full.
QSI is not responsible for charges, other than registration fees paid, incurred by registrants from cancellation of any of the courses.
Instructor Bio
Instructor:
Ann Marie Neufelder, President of Mission Ready Software.
Ann Marie is the chairperson of the IEEE 1633 Recommended Practices for Software Reliability. She authored most of the IEEE 1633 document and also contributed significantly to SAE 1025 FMEA as well as SAE JA 1002 and SAE JA 1003.
Ann Marie has the world’s largest benchmarking study of software development practices correlated to escaped defect density. She invented nearly all of the early prediction models for software reliability from it. She also has the world’s largest database of software failures analyzed by root cause. She invented the Common Defect Enumeration currently hosted on the DOW DAU R&M CoP website, which is the foundation for the effective software FMEA approach shown in this class.
