TY - GEN
T1 - An analysis of factors affecting software safety in the aerospace industry
AU - Li, Wenlu
AU - Li, Qiuying
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation of the factors that affect software safety based on an online survey with 99 practitioners from Chinese aviation organizations. The study proposes twenty potential factors covering five different categories (e.g., requirements, coding, testing, safety analysis, others). The survey focuses on the perspectives of the primary participants, managers, programmers, testers, consisting of a Likert scale evaluation of factors and questions about the participants' background. Many statistical analysis techniques, such as the relative weight method, correlation analysis, factor analysis and analysis of variance technique, are taken to analyze these factors. The findings are of great significance for further research and guidance on the development of safety-critical software. For practitioners, it provides estimates and quick guidance for software safety. The studies in this paper will be useful to the software safety community in aerospace industry as well as the wider software development community.
AB - This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation of the factors that affect software safety based on an online survey with 99 practitioners from Chinese aviation organizations. The study proposes twenty potential factors covering five different categories (e.g., requirements, coding, testing, safety analysis, others). The survey focuses on the perspectives of the primary participants, managers, programmers, testers, consisting of a Likert scale evaluation of factors and questions about the participants' background. Many statistical analysis techniques, such as the relative weight method, correlation analysis, factor analysis and analysis of variance technique, are taken to analyze these factors. The findings are of great significance for further research and guidance on the development of safety-critical software. For practitioners, it provides estimates and quick guidance for software safety. The studies in this paper will be useful to the software safety community in aerospace industry as well as the wider software development community.
KW - Aerospace industry
KW - Factor analysis
KW - Impact factors
KW - Relative weight method
KW - Software safety
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85080944192
U2 - 10.1109/ISSREW.2019.00097
DO - 10.1109/ISSREW.2019.00097
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85080944192
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2019
SP - 362
EP - 369
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2019
A2 - Wolter, Katinka
A2 - Schieferdecker, Ina
A2 - Gallina, Barbara
A2 - Cukier, Michel
A2 - Natella, Roberto
A2 - Ivaki, Naghmeh
A2 - Laranjeiro, Nuno
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 30th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2019
Y2 - 28 October 2019 through 31 October 2019
ER -