Authors
Janice Hill
• PhD student• IV&V Facility at NASA in
Fairmont, West Virginia, USA
Scott Tilley
• Professor• Department of
Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, USA• Co(authored) more than
100 academic publications
Origins• SEI Software Risk Evaluation (SRE) practice
Primary functions SRE
Detection
Specification
Assessment
Consolidation
Planning & Coordination
Verification & Validation
Training & Communcation
Support functions
Purpose
• High software safety standards
NASA
• (Possibly) a lot of software safety risks
Legacy Systems
Assessment• Risk profile
Possible consequence
Catastrophic
Critical
Marginal
Negligible
Probability of occurrence
Likely
Probable
Possible
Unlikely
Improbable
Related Literature• SEI Software Risk Evaluation (SRE) practice
• Higuera, R. P., & Haimes, Y. Y. (1996). Software Risk Management. Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-012. Software Engineering Institute.
Primary functions SRE
Detection
Specification
Assessment
Consolidation
Mitigation
Planning & Coordination
Verification & Validation
Training & Communcation
Support functions
Related Literature• Software Safety Risk Taxonomy Based Questionnaire (TBQ)
• Hill, J., & Victor, D. (2008). The Product Engineering Class in the Software Safety Risk Taxonomy for Building Safety-Critical Systems. Proceedings of the 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2008) (pp. 617-626). IEEE CS Press.
• Legacy Systems Risk Database (LSRD) tool
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