About the founder
Ann Marie Neufelder — Chair of IEEE 1633 and Pioneer of Software Reliability Prediction
Ann Marie Neufelder is the President of Mission Ready Software. She chairs the IEEE 1633 working group, invented the software reliability prediction models that IEEE 1633 recommends, and invented the 6D Common Defect Enumeration software FMEA that SAE J1025 recommends. Every Requs AI product is built on her research.
Standards leadership
- Chairperson, IEEE 1633 Recommended Practice on Software Reliability (named chair in 2013; editions 2016 and 2026)
- Invented the software reliability prediction models recommended by IEEE 1633
- Wrote SAE J1025 FMEA Section 7 on software, and invented the 6D CDE software FMEA it recommends
- Contributor to SAE TAHB0009A Reliability Program Handbook (2019) and the major update of SAE JA1002/JA1003 (in ballot)
- Creator of the Common Defect Enumeration (CDE)
The participants page of IEEE 1633 lists Ann Marie Neufelder as Chair of the working group.
Award
2017 IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award. IEEE Reliability Society announcement
Books and guidebooks
Marcel Dekker / CRC Press, 1993, updated through 2018
Quanterion Solutions, 2014
Rome Laboratory, Griffiss Air Force Base, 1993
- “System and Software Reliability and Assurance Notebook,” Rome Laboratory, Griffiss AFB, 1997
- “SEMATECH Tactical Software Reliability Guidebook,” Austin, TX, 1995
- “Forty Years of Lessons Learned in Software Reliability,” IEEE Reliability Magazine, 2024
Selected conference papers
- Estimating Software Reliability Without Test Hours — RAMS 2025
- Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Software Failures (with T. Neufelder) — RAMS 2024
- Software FMEA and the Common Defect Enumeration — RAMS 2023
- Advantages of IEEE P1633 for Practicing Software Reliability (with L. Fiondella, L.J. Gullo, H. Daughtrey) — RAMS 2015
- How to Measure the Impact of Specific Development Practices on Fielded Defect Density — ISSRE 2000
- How to Predict Software Defect Density During Proposal Phase — NAECON 2000
- Applying Software Reliability and TQM Principles — Tenth Annual Software Reliability Symposium, 1992
Registered Copyrights
- 1992: registered copyright for software that predicts software reliability
- 1993: published Ensuring Software Reliability
- 2022: Requs AI Predict — the first machine-learning defect prediction model, predicting defect density before code is written
- 2023: Requs AI Edge Case Prediction and Software FMEA — the only language model built for software FMEA
Programs and organizations
Selected programs and organizations Ann Marie has supported directly, from her program history:
US Army: Multi Mission Launcher, Paladin, Ground Combat Vehicle, ManPack radio, and Integrated Air and Missile Defense.
US Navy: Airborne Self Protection Jammer, Zumwalt Guided Missile Destroyer, missile programs, and the Integrated Electronic Warfare System.
Missile Defense Agency: Missile Defense National Team and Ground Based Midcourse Defense.
US Marines: GATO/R.
NASA: MUOS, the International Space Station experiment chamber, and GOES-R.
Commercial and other industries
Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic (diabetes care), Bendix (vehicle brakes), Motional (LIDAR sensor suite for Hyundai), Johnson Controls (control systems), Roche (diabetes monitoring), Philips Lighting, Physio-Control (defibrillators), American Bureau of Shipping (petroleum vessels), Brookhaven National Laboratory (nuclear systems) and First Solar (solar energy).
Earlier career: Senior Software Engineer for avionics and electronic warfare software at Westinghouse Defense Center (1986–1991), Unisys, and Computer Sciences Corporation. B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1983.