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The development of safety-critical electric/electronic (E/E) automotive systems is performed by an increasing number of software tools. Hence it is very important that software tool malfunctions do not have an impact on the final product. This paper proposes a systematic methodology to establish confidence in the usage of software tools. The approach has been developed on the basis of an industrial development project and is compliant to the framework required by the standard ISO 26262. The methodology is based on a multi-layered analysis that systematically identifies the risk of tool-introduced errors and error detection failures and allows for the derivation of the tool confidence level (TCL). The benefit of this methodology is to identify and reuse already existing verification measures in the development process for establishing confidence in the usage of software tools. Furthermore, the approach allows introducing new verification measures to optimize the overall development process.
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Hillebrand, J., Reichenpfader, P., Mandic, I., Siegl, H., Peer, C. (2011). Establishing Confidence in the Usage of Software Tools in Context of ISO 26262. In: Flammini, F., Bologna, S., Vittorini, V. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6894. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24270-0_19
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