12.4 Safety cases
As I have discussed, many safety-critical, software-intensive systems are regulated. An external authority has significant influence on their development and deployment. Regulators are government bodies whose job is to ensure that commercial companies do not deploy systems that pose threats to public and environmental safety or the national economy. The owners of safety-critical systems must convince regulators that they have made the best possible efforts to ensure that their systems are safe. The regulator assesses the safety case for the system, which presents evidence and arguments that normal operation of the system will not cause harm to a user.
This evidence is collected during the systems development process. It may ...
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