Software Safety Risk Evaluation Process Yorick Bouma, , Group III
Contents Background Information Main Phases PDD Related Literature
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Authors Janice Hill PhD student IV&V Facility at NASA in Fairmont, West Virginia, USA Scott Tilley Professor Department of Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, USA Co(authored) more than 100 academic publications
Origins SEI Software Risk Evaluation (SRE) practice Primary functions SRE Detection Specification Assessment Consolidation Planning & Coordination Verification & Validation Training & Communcation Support functions
Purpose High software safety standards NASA (Possibly) a lot of software safety risks Legacy Systems
MAIN PHASES
Main Phases Detection Risk Specification Assessment Consolidation Mitigation
Detection Project profile Questions regarding software safety Risks
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Risk Specification Source of risk impact Performance Support Cost Schedule
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Assessment Risk profile Possible consequence CatastrophicCriticalMarginalNegligible Probability of occurrence LikelyProbablePossibleUnlikelyImprobable
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Consolidation Group similar risks Assign priority ranking Determine risk area importance
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Mitigation List risk areas Develop mitigation plans for risk areas Develop report on project
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RELATED LITERATURE
Related Literature SEI Software Risk Evaluation (SRE) practice Higuera, R. P., & Haimes, Y. Y. (1996). Software Risk Management. Technical Report CMU/SEI- 96-TR-012. Software Engineering Institute. Primary functions SRE Detection Specification Assessment Consolidation Mitigation Planning & Coordination Verification & Validation Training & Communcation Support functions
Related Literature Software Safety Risk Taxonomy Based Questionnaire (TBQ) Hill, J., & Victor, D. (2008). The Product Engineering Class in the Software Safety Risk Taxonomy for Building Safety-Critical Systems. Proceedings of the 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2008) (pp ). IEEE CS Press. Legacy Systems Risk Database (LSRD) tool
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