Paper Info
Title
Fault Tree Analysis of Software-Controlled Component Systems Based on Second-Order Probabilities
Abstract
Software is still mostly regarded as a black box in the development process, and its safety-related quality ensured primarily by process measures. For systems whose lion share of service is delivered by (embedded) software, process-centred methods are seen to be no longer sufficient. Recent safety norms (for example, ISO 26262) thus prescribe the use of safety models for both hardware and software. However, failure rates or probabilities for software are difficult to justify. Only if developers take good design decisions from the outset will they achieve safety goals efficiently. To support safety-oriented navigation of the design space and to bridge the existing gap between qualitative analyses for software and quantitiative ones for hardware, we propose a fault-tree-based approach to the safety analysis of software-controlled systems. Assigning intervals instead of fixed values to events and using Monte-Carlo sampling, probability mass functions of failure probabilities are derived. Further analysis of PMF lead to estimates of system quality that enable safety managers to take an optimal choice between design alternatives and to target cost-efficient solutions in every phase of the design process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISSRE.2009.22
ISSRE
Keywords
Field
DocType
software-controlled component system,safety model,recent safety norm,safety goal,safety analysis,design process,fault tree analysis,software-controlled component systems,design alternative,good design decision,design space,second-order probability,second-order probabilities,development process,safety manager,software quality,boolean functions,data structures,embedded systems,sampling methods,iso 26262,monte carlo methods,embedded system,probability mass function,simulation,cost efficiency,fault trees,fault tree,monte carlo sampling,embedded software,failure rate,simulation software,second order,hardware
Probability mass function,Black box (phreaking),Avionics software,Embedded software,Computer science,Real-time computing,Software,Engineering design process,Fault tree analysis,Software quality,Reliability engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.64
18
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc Förster1261.74
Mario Trapp2517.96