Using Measures and Risk Indicators for Early Insight into Software Product Characteristics such as Software Safety

Abstract

Software safety is one such product characteristic and this approach has been applied to identifying software safety insight areas and goals and developing early software safety measures, models and responses. Although the actual safety of a system cannot be verified during development, measures can reveal early insights into potential safety problems and risks. The approach and the example software measures presented are based on experience working with the safety engineering group on a large Department of Defense program.