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What Is Safety-Critical Software?

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  • We give a short introduction to IEC 61508 and a definition of safety-critical software.

  • We discuss briefly the challenges posed by the safety-standards relating to the development of safety-critical software—especially the RAMS characteristics.

  • Some security issues and issues related to testing are discussed briefly.

  • Some issues related to resilience and why resilience and agile development go together so well.

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  1. Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway

    Geir Kjetil Hanssen & Thor Myklebust

  2. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

    Tor Stålhane

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Hanssen, G.K., Stålhane, T., Myklebust, T. (2018). What Is Safety-Critical Software?. In: SafeScrum® – Agile Development of Safety-Critical Software . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99334-8_3

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