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An Integrated Process for Developing Safety-critical Systems using Agile Development Methods

Authors:
Zhensheng Guo
Claudia Hirschmann

Keywords: safety-critical software-intensive systems; IEC 61508; EN 50128; agile software development process; Scrum

Abstract:
This paper proposes a novel idea for developing safety-critical software-intensive systems by the use of agile development models. This idea comes from the dramatic increase of the complexity for constructing technical systems such as trains, cars and medical devices. Iterative and incremental development becomes more and more popular and effective in such fields. However, the development of safety-critical systems is strictly defined by relevant safety standards. A kind of finish-to-start relationship between the development phases is required implicitly. This paper explains an idea to integrate an iterative incremental development process into the strict safety development lifecycle. At the end of this short paper, an overview of the further activities is presented.

Pages: 647 to 649

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-230-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012