Software safety: why, what, and how

  • Authors:
  • Nancy G. Leveson

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Irvine

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Software safety issues become important when computers are used to control real-time, safety-critical processes. This survey attempts to explain why there is a problem, what the problem is, and what is known about how to solve it. Since this is a relatively new software research area, emphasis is placed on delineating the outstanding issues and research topics.