Software Hazard and Safety Analysis

  • Authors:
  • John A. McDermid

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FTRTFT '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Co-sponsored by IFIP WG 2.2
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Safety is a system property and software, of itself, cannot be safe or unsafe. However software has a major influence on safety in many modern systems, e.g. aircraft and engine controls, railway signalling, and medical equipment.The paper outlines the principles of system hazard and safety analysis, and briefly describes work on adapting classical hazard and safety analysis techniques to apply to software. It then briefly discusses the role of formal analysis in software hazard and safety assessment, indicating both the state of practice and the aims of some ongoing research projects.