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Software Safety

Curriculum Module
This 1987 report helps equip software engineers with the extra knowledge and skills necessary to participate in a safety-critical software development project.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-87-CM-006

Abstract

Software safety involves ensuring that software will execute within a system context without resulting in unacceptable risk. Building safety-critical software requires special procedures to be used in all phases of the software development process. This module introduces the problems involved in building such software along with the procedures that can be used to enhance the safety of the resulting software product.