Chapter 15. Software System Safety
Nancy G. Leveson (Professor)
Aeronautics and Astronautics/Engineering Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston, Massachusetts
Kathryn Anne Weiss, Ph.D.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Flight Software and Data Systems Section Pasadena, California
Contents
15.1 Introduction
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15.2 The Software Safety Problem
476
15.3 Current Practice
486
15.4 Best Practice
489
15.5 Summary
503
15.1. Introduction
Software is quickly becoming a major part of and a major concern in space applications. Whereas software always has played a role in the design and control of spacecraft, the functionality being assigned to software is quickly increasing; and conservative design, which minimizes the ...
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