Reliability Measure

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The Reliability Measure the risk of potential application failures and the stability of an application when confronted with unexpected conditions. According to ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765, Reliability is the degree to which a system, product, or component performs specified functions under specified conditions for a specified period of time. The reason for checking and monitoring Reliability is to prevent or at least reduce application downtime, outages, data corruption, and errors that directly affect users.

Source: OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC - May 2012