Software Engineering, 10th Edition

Key Points

• Safety-critical systems are systems whose failure can lead to human injury or death.

• A hazard-driven approach may be used to understand the safety requirements for safety-critical systems. You identify potential hazards and decompose them (using methods such as fault tree analysis) to discover their root causes. You then specify requirements to avoid or recover from these problems.

• It is important to have a well-defined, certified process for safety-critical systems development. The process should include the identification and monitoring of potential hazards.

• Static analysis is an approach to V & V that examines the source code (or other representation) of a system, looking for errors and anomalies. It allows all parts of a program ...