Automotive safety case pattern
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Automotive embedded systems have become very complex, are strongly integrated, and safety-criticality of these systems raises new challenges. Due to this safety-criticality the ISO 26262 road vehicle safety norm was introduced. Development conforming ISO 26262 requires providing consistency of the safety concept during the entire product lifecycle, and supporting evidences, known as and combined via safety case. A safety case is a collection of development artifacts (e.g. test protocols, interface descriptions, domain experts group meeting protocols, certificates) aiming to convince customers or auditors by arguing that the product is capable safe. Establishment of such a safety case is a tedious task, and practical examples and guidelines are yet rather uncommon due to intellectual property reasons.
This paper presents the application of patterns to generate a ISO 26262 safety case documentation for an industrial case study. The introduced patterns and use case should serve for novices in the area of automotive safety as guidance for construction of safety cases.
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ISBN:9781450334167
DOI:10.1145/2721956
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- Veli-Pekka Eloranta,
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- Uwe van Heesch
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