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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2012.15.1.115

A Study on the Software Fault Modes and Effect Analysis for Software Safety Evaluation  

Kim, Myong-Hee (부경대학교 교육대학원 전자계산교육전공)
Park, Man-Gon (부경대학교 IT융합응용공학과)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.15, no.1, 2012 , pp. 115-130 More about this Journal
Abstract
These days, most of safety-critical systems, which are systems those failures or malfunction may result in death or serious injury to people, or loss or severe damage to social systems, or environmental harm, are being built of embedded software or loaded controlling software systems on computers, electrical and electronic components or devices. There are a lot kind of fault analysis methods to evaluate safety of the safety-critical systems equipped computers, electrical and electronic components or devices with software. However, the only assessment method to evaluate software safety of a safety-critical system is not enough to analysis properly on account of the various types and characteristic of software systems by progress of information technology. Therefore, this paper proposes the integrated evaluation method and carries out a case study for the software safety of safety-critical system which embedded or loaded software sizes are small and control response times are not sensitive by use of two security analysis methods which are Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Fault Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) for ubiquitous healthcare system.
Keywords
Fault Tree Analysis; Fault Modes and Effect Analysis; Safety Evaluation; Safety-Critical System;
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