Quantitative Assessment for Software Safety Integrity Level with Optimal Software Release Policies  
Author Takahiro Nishikawa

 
Co-Author(s) Shigeru Yamada

 
Abstract A safety-related system has not been established with the usual method of calculating the software safety integrity level (abbreviated as SIL) in the functional safety standards, which is determined only by the number of development methods applied to practical safety-related system (abbreviated as SRSs). In this paper, we discuss quantitative assessment for it by applying reliability measurement based on software reliability growth models (abbreviated as SRGM’s) that have been widely and successfully applied to practical software quality management activities. Based on a nonhomogeneous Poisson process (abbreviated as NHPP), the plausible methods of calculating software SIL in the functional safety standard are proposed. Further, we discuss the quantitative method for assuring software safety integrity level with the optimal release policies.

 
Keywords Functional Safety, Software Safety Integrity Level, Software Reliability Growth Model, Software Reliability Measures, Optimal Release Policies
   
    Article #:  1984
 
Proceedings of the 19th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design
August 5-7, 2013 - Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.