Safety-Critical Systems and the TSP

Abstract

Because the Team Software Process (TSP) has proven effective for developing high-quality software applications, a brief review of the safety-critical systems field has been conducted to determine whether the TSP could be usefully extended into this area. This technical note provides a brief overview of recent work in software safety, discusses the problems and implications of using the TSP for developing safety-critical systems, and presents some conclusions. This information is relevant to software developers and acquirers of safety-critical software-intensive systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA442856

Entities

People

  • Watts Humphrey

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accident Investigations
  • Accidents
  • Application Software
  • Best Practices
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Copyrights
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fault Tree Analysis
  • Governments
  • Safety
  • Safety Engineering
  • Software Development
  • System Safety

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.