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 International 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), published by SAE.org
- 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 AFB, 1997
Read the handbook (PDF)
- “SEMATECH Tactical Software Reliability Guidebook,” Austin, TX, 1995
- “Forty Years of Lessons Learned in Software Reliability,” IEEE Reliability Magazine, 2024 (IEEE Xplore)
Selected conference papers
- Estimating Software Reliability Without Test Hours — RAMS 2025 (IEEE Xplore)
- Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Software Failures (with T. Neufelder) — RAMS 2024 (IEEE Xplore)
- Software FMEA and the Common Defect Enumeration — RAMS 2023 (IEEE Xplore)
- Advantages of IEEE P1633 for Practicing Software Reliability (with L. Fiondella, L.J. Gullo, H. Daughtrey) — RAMS 2015 (IEEE Xplore)
- How to Measure the Impact of Specific Development Practices on Fielded Defect Density — ISSRE 2000 (IEEE Xplore)
- How to Predict Software Defect Density During Proposal Phase — NAECON 2000 (IEEE Xplore)
- Applying Software Reliability and TQM Principles — Tenth Annual Software Reliability Symposium, 1992
Full publication list: Ann Marie Neufelder on Google Scholar.
Podcasts and media
- “SOR 319: Software Reliability Methodology” — Speaking of Reliability podcast, Reliability FM Network, with Adam Bahret and Chris Stapelmann
Learn from Ann
- IEEE 1633 explained, by the standard's chair
- SAE 1025 software FMEA, by the author of its software section
- Software FMEA training
- Software reliability prediction models she created
- Software reliability testing services
Registered Copyrights
- The Naked Truth About Software Engineering — Registration TX0007368457 (11/5/2010). Updated to The Cold Hard Truth about Reliable Software, Edition 8, 2026.
- Common Defect Enumeration — Registration TX0009195743 (3/19/2022)
- Requs AI Predict — Registration TXu002324833 (3/14/2022)
- Software Reliability Toolkit — Registration TX0007367784 (2/8/2011)
- Software Reliability Toolkit for Predicting and Managing Software Defects — Registration TX0007368462 (11/5/2010)
- Software for predicting software reliability — Registration TXu000514436 (4/9/1992)
Patents
- PStiMate — U.S. Patent #5,473,741 (1993), Method for Determining the Time To Perform Raster Image Processing (RIP). Ann Marie developed the software design and code jointly with a client.
Government programs and organizations
Selected government 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.
Education: B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1983.