NDLI: Traditional software development's effects on safety

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gowen, L.D. Yap, M.Y.
Copyright Year	1993
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Mississippi State Univ., MS State, MS, USA (Gowen, L.D.; Yap, M.Y.)
Abstract	Faults in a system can result in catastrophic consequences such as death, injury or environmental harm. For example, the Therac 25 incident killed two patients and severely injured a third patient due to a software error. The Therac 25 is a computer-controlled therapeutic radiation machine. Governmental, industrial, and academic researchers are searching for new ways to prevent and detect hazardous faults when developing and certifying safety-critical software systems. To determine the effects of these new techniques, this paper discusses an experiment where developers in the control group followed a traditional methodology while the experimental group followed a modified methodology, which consisted of the control group's methodology along with certain safety-specific methods and guidelines for the following life-cycle phases: specification, design, and verification. The results showed that the experimental group had fewer latent safety-critical faults than the control group.<>
Starting Page	58
Ending Page	63
File Size	435346
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818637528
DOI	10.1109/CBMS.1993.262990
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1993-06-13
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Programming Software safety Radiation safety Injuries Computer errors Computer industry Electrical equipment industry Industrial accidents Fault detection Software systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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