40 Years of Computing at Newcastle

Department Technical Report Series No. 451

Robust Requirements Specifications for Safety-Critical Systems

A. Saeed
T. Anderson
R. de Lemos

University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1994

Abstract

Experience in safety-critical systems has shown that deviations from assumed behaviour can and do cause accidents. This suggests that the development of requirements specifications for such systems should be supported with a risk analysis. In this paper we present an approach to the development of robust requirements specifications (i.e. specifications that are adequate for the risks involved), based on qualitative and quantitative analyses.


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Technical Report Abstract No. 451, 27 June 1997