Safety
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Standards and Guidebooks
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Air
Force System Safety Division home page: includes MIL-STD-882C,
MIL-STD-882D,
and associated DIDs.
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MIL-STD-882B:
System Safety Program Requirements, Jul 1987
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AFISC SSH 1-1: Software System
Safety Handbook, Sep 1985
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DoD Joint Software System Safety Committee, Software System
Safety Handbook, Dec 1999
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Naval Surface Warfare Center SSH Handbook home
page
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EIA Committee G-48,
System Safety. Also has good information on MIL-STD-882 status, etc.
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Guidance
for the Adoption of Tools for use in Safety-Related Software Development,
British Computer Society, Institution of Electrical Engineers
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RTCA/DO-178B: Software Considerations in Airborne Systems
and Equipment Certification, Dec 1992
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UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) 00-55: Requirements for Safety
Related Software in Defence Equipment, parts 1
and 2
(Adobe
portable document format)
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NASA-GB-1740.13-96:
NASA Guidebook for Safety Critical Software - Analysis and Development
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Underwriters Laboratories (UL) PE/SS
page
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Australian Defense Standard DEF
(Aust) 5679: The Procurement of Computer-Based Safety Critical Systems
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MIL-STD-1629A:
Procedures for Performing a Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis
(FMECA)
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TÜV Rheinland guidelines
for safety-related software
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Leveson, Nancy G.
"Software
Safety: Why, What and How," ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 18 No. 2, Jun
1986
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Lessons learned:
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Computer-related
aerospace incidents (including Ariane 5, Space Shuttle, and several
commercial aircraft)
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AW&ST articles on Ariane
5 (how not to reuse software)
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Anomalies
in Digital Flight Control Systems (AFTI/F-16, X-29, HiMAT, X-31, C-17,
YC-14)
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AW&ST article on X-31
crash (a very good lesson on project communication)
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Information on UK Chinook
helicopter FADEC (a tale of public perception of software safety)
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What
happened on Mars? (Pathfinder timing fault)
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Titan software-related incidents: 1999
(bad constant in data file) and older
(change management)
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NASA reports on the Mars
exploration programs and "Faster,
Better, Cheaper"
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A good news story: Space
Shuttle
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E. A. Addy, A
Case Study on Isolation of Safety-Critical Software, COMPASS 1991
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The RISKS
Digest: Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
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Other interesting links