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A study on airborne software safety requirements elicitation based on failure-cause-base aided SFMEA

  • Xiaojie Xu*
  • , Minyan Lu
  • , Xiaohong Bao
  • , Lingzhong Meng
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper a method for eliciting airborne software safety requirements (SSRs) is presented. Software FMEA (SFMEA) is applied to derive SSRs so as to improve airborne software safety. SFMEA is a popular analytical methodology for software reliability and safety analysis. A potential failure-cause-base for airborne software is built to support SFMEA. Analysts can establish recommended actions to the failure modes according to the results of definition of failure modes and potential causes. The potential cause base is used to ensure the completeness of potential cause investigation since currently it depends more on analysts' domain and safety knowledge. Then SSRs can be elicited referring to recommended actions established by SFMEA. And the processes for updating the cause base are established. At last this method is applied to aircraft engine control software in which the feasibility and effectiveness of this method f is demonstrated and software system safety is improved by this work.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)234-241
Number of pages8
JournalInternational Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology
Volume4
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2012

Keywords

  • Potential cause base
  • Requirements elicitation
  • SFMEA
  • Software safety

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