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A Holistic View on the Dependability of Software-Intensive Systems

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Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 1998)

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This paper gives an example of a holistic, quantitative dependability analysis of a software-intensive system. It demonstrates a way of choosing costeffective improvements and achieving trustworthy results, even when it may be difficult to get agreement on software reliability data. This is done by identifying those components that are critical for the safety of the whole system. In the case analysed here the software, though extensively used in normal operation, is not critical for the accident scenario considered. Therefore a rough estimate of its failure rate suffices for dependability calculations.

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  1. Sterreichisches Forschungszentrum Seibersdorf, Seibersdorf, Austria

    Gerald Sonneck & Erwin Schoitsch

  2. Centre for Software Reliability - City University, London, UK

    Lorenzo Strigini

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  1. Gerald Sonneck
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  1. Fachbereich Angewandte Informatik, Fachhochschule Fulda, Postfach 12 69, D-36012, Fulda, Germany

    Wolfgang Ehrenberger

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Sonneck, G., Schoitsch, E., Strigini, L. (1998). A Holistic View on the Dependability of Software-Intensive Systems. In: Ehrenberger, W. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability and Security. SAFECOMP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1516. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49646-7_29

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