Title
A Controlled Experiment on Component Fault Trees
Abstract
In safety analysis for safety-critical embedded systems, methods such as FMEA and fault trees (FT) are strongly established in practice. However, the current shift towards model-based development has resulted in various new safety analysis methods, such as Component Integrated Fault Trees (CFT). Industry demands to know the benefits of these new methods. To compare CFT to FT, we conducted a controlled experiment in which 18 participants from industry and academia had to apply each method to safety modeling tasks from the avionics domain. Although the analysis of the solutions showed that the use of CFT did not yield a significantly different number of correct or incorrect solutions, the participants subjectively rated the modeling capacities of CFT significantly higher in terms of model consistency, clarity, and maintainability. The results are promising for the potential of CFT as a model-based approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-40793-2_26
SAFECOMP
Field
DocType
Citations 
CLARITY,Systems engineering,Computer science,Avionics,Controlled experiment,Fault tree analysis,Reliability engineering,Maintainability
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jessica Jung1264.18
Andreas Jedlitschka238938.38
Kai Höfig3222.79
Dominik Domis4857.55
Martin Hiller5121.14