An Approach to Modeling Software Safety

: Software for safety-critical systems has to deal with the hazards identified by safety analysis in order to make the system safe, risk-free and fail-safe. Software safety is a composite of many factors. Problem statement: Existing software quality models like McCall's and Boehm's and ISO 9126 were inadequate in addressing the software safety issues of real time safety-critical embedded systems. At present there does not exist any standard framework that comprehensively addresses the Factors, Criteria and Metrics (FCM) approach of the quality models in respect of software safety. Approach: We proposed a new model for software safety based on the McCall's software quality model that specifically identifies the criteria corresponding to software safety in safety critical applications. The criteria in the proposed software safety model pertains to system hazard analysis, completeness of requirements, identification of software-related safety-critical requirements, safetyco...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SNPD
• Authors: M. Ben Swarup, P. Seetha Ramaiah
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Safety-critical, Safety-critical System, SNPD 2008, Software Safety