A Novel Framework to Assist the Novice in Defining Failure Modes for System-level Software FMEA

Abstract

System-level Software Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, called as FMEA, that is highly focused on software behavior (here in after SS-FMEA) is difficult to identify effective failure modes which may lead to a serious accident due to the systemic nature of failures rather than random hardware failures. The study has modeled insights derived from the best practices of space system’s SS-FMEA and proposed a framework to assist the novice engineer in identifying high impact failure modes.