Liability in software engineering: overview of the LISE approach and illustration on a case study

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Le Métayer;Manuel Maarek;Valérie Viet Triem Tong;Eduardo Mazza;Marie-Laure Potet;Nicolas Craipeau;Stéphane Frénot;Ronan Hardouin

  • Affiliations:
  • LICIT, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes;LICIT, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes;SSIR, Supélec Rennes;University of Grenoble;University of Grenoble;University of Caen, Basse-Normandie;AMAZONES, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, INSA Lyon;University of Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

LISE is a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools to (1) define software liability in a precise and unambiguous way and (2) establish such liability in case of incident. This paper provides an overview of the overall approach taken in the project based on a case study. The case study illustrates a situation where, in order to reduce legal uncertainties, the parties to a contract wish to include in the agreement specific clauses to define as precisely as possible the share of liabilities between them for the main types of failures of the system.