Paper Info
Title
Determining potential errors in tool chains: strategies to reach tool confidence according to ISO 26262
Abstract
Due to failures of software tools faults compromising the safety of the developed items may either be injected or not detected. Thus the safety norm for road vehicles, ISO 26262, requires to evaluate all software tools by identifying potential tool failures and measures to detect or avoid them. The result is a tool confidence level for each tool, which determines if and how a tool needs to be qualified. This paper focuses on tool failure identification and proposes two strategies for this task. The function-based strategy derives potential tool failures from a functional decomposition of the tool. The artifact-based strategy analyzes artifacts only. We introduce an analysis tool to support these strategies and discuss their ability to produce lists of failures that are comprehensive, uniform and adequately abstract. This discussion is based on our experience with these strategies in a large scale industrial project.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33678-2_27
SAFECOMP
Keywords
Field
DocType
tool failure identification,software tool,analysis tool,function-based strategy,tool chain,developed item,potential tool failure,tool confidence level,software tools fault,potential error,safety norm,artifact-based strategy analyzes artifact
Hazard and operability study,Systems engineering,Computer science,Functional decomposition,Software,Reliability engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Wildmoser1795.00
Jan Philipps216216.45
Oscar Slotosch317319.28