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

Yoon, Jae-Han (Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University)
Lee, Jae-Chon (Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University)
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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.9, no.6, 2007 , pp. 89-96 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
System Safety; Safety Requirements; Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA); Test & Evaluation Plan (TEP); Traceability;
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