Chapter 17
Systematic Failures, Especially Software
Abstract
This chapter highlights the qualitative aspects of failure prevention which are necessary to mitigate systematic failures (which include software bugs and ambiguities). The relationship of faults to errors to failures is explained. Design cycle activities are outlined. The static analysis of code is also explained. The chapter concludes with a checklist for software QA activities and tasks.
Keywords
Fault
error
failure
systematic
software
modelling
fault tolerance
formal methods
static analysis
17.1. Random versus Systematic Failures
It was mentioned in Section 1.3 of Chapter 1 that, due to the complexity of modern engineering products, system failure does not always involve a single ...
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