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We present a systematic approach for the efficient management of the data involved in the development process of safety critical systems, illustrating how the activities performed during the life-cycle can be integrated in a common framework. Information needed in these activities reflects concepts that pertain to three different perspectives: i) structural elements of design and implementation; ii) functional requirements and quality attributes; iii) organization of the overall process. The integration of these concepts may considerably improve the trade-off between reward and effort spent in verification and quality-driven activities.
We address the exploitation of ontological modeling and semantic technologies so as to support cohesion across different stages of the development life-cycle, attaching a machine-readable semantics to concepts belonging to structural, functional and process perspectives. The formalized conceptualization enables the implementation of a tool leveraging on well established technologies aiding the accomplishment of crucial and effort-expensive activities such as the identification of the associations between requirements and the SW components implementing them.
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Bicchierai, I., Bucci, G., Nocentini, C., Vicario, E. (2013). Using Ontologies in the Integration of Structural, Functional, and Process Perspectives in the Development of Safety Critical Systems. In: Keller, H.B., Plödereder, E., Dencker, P., Klenk, H. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2013. Ada-Europe 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38601-5_7
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