Patent ID: 7254517

Claim:
A method for a computer supported prognosis of reliability of a technical system which has a processor on which a program runs, comprising: determining an analysis and/or design prognosis figure which describes an expected effort required to produce the program, the analysis and/or design prognosis figure being determined in a metric for the analysis and/or the design phase of production; determining an implementation prognosis figure which describes the expected effort required to produce the program, the implementation prognosis figure being determined from the analysis and/or design prognosis figure and being determined in a metric for the implementation phase of production; determining a reliability prognosis figure which describes an expected reliability of the program, the reliability prognosis figure being determined from the implementation prognosis figure wherein the reliability prognosis figure is determined in a metric, which is different from the metric for the implementation phase of production and different from the metric for the analysis and/or design phase of production, and the reliability prognosis figure is displayed and/or stored.