On an Efficient Development of the Test & Evaluation Plan through the insured Traceability of the Safety Requirements

안전 요구사항의 추적성 구현을 통한 시험/평가 계획서의 효율적 개발

  • Yoon, Jae-Han (Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Chon (Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University)
  • 윤재한 (아주대학교 시스템공학과) ;
  • 이재천 (아주대학교 시스템공학과)
  • Published : 2007.12.30

Abstract

It is well known that the test and evaluation plan (TEP) is very crucial in the successful development of safety-critical systems. As such, this paper discusses an approach to the development of the TEP for a system that should meet safety requirements in the systems development process. It is studied how to incorporate the result of preliminary hazard analysis (PHA) in generating the safety requirements. It is also discussed how to deal with them when the system requirements (i.e., functions, performance, constraints, components, etc) and the safety requirements are integrated into one model. While doing so, we have constructed the required traceability among them, which is necessary and very useful when the safety requirements need to be corrected or be changed. The use of the traceability makes it possible to easily check out whether and how the safety requirements are properly incorporated in the system design process. Furthermore, without the verified traceability, the system cannot be changed or upgraded later. In order to implement the model on a computer-aided tool, we have constructed a database (DB) schema. As a result, the implemented model/DB allows to automatically generate TEP which can be used to measure the performance and safety level of the developed system.

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