Standardization for safety software: current status and perspectives

During the last few years, international, national and professional organizations are producing standards and guidelines for safety-critical software with different approaches, scopes and structures. This paper shows relevant efforts in the field. The main concepts and definitions are considered which provide the differences of focus in every application. Military and nuclear industries are the traditional users and producers of these standards, but other sectors, such as technical, medical, transport will also gain.<>