Linking modelling in event-b with safety cases

  • Authors:
  • Yuliya Prokhorova;Elena Troubitsyna

  • Affiliations:
  • Turku Centre for Computer Science, TUCS, Finland,Department of Information Technologies, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland;Department of Information Technologies, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

  • Venue:
  • SERENE'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Safety cases are adopted in the certification process of many safety-critical systems. They justify why a system is safe and whether the design adequately incorporates safety requirements defined in a system requirement specification. The use of formal methods facilitates modelling and verification of safety-critical systems. In our work, we aim at establishing a link between formal modelling in Event-B and constructing a safety case. We propose an approach to incorporating safety requirements in a formal specification in such a way that it allows the developers to derive a safety case sufficient to demonstrate safety. We present a small case study illustrating the proposed approach.