Re: [SystemSafety] Fault, Failure and Reliability Again (short)

From: Peter Bernard Ladkin < >
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:22:44 +0100

Ross,

On 2015-03-04 15:07 , Ross - Sigma wrote:
> From an aeronautical software perspective it is the contribution of software
> to aircraft level Failure Conditions that is considered. No attempt is made
> to quantify that contribution numerically. ....
> I don't see any need to change or rewrite any of the aeronautical software
> standards.

I think you've missed the point.

I didn't say "standards", I said certification requirements. Those are, at least in the US, Federal Regulations, not standards. They set numerical requirements on rate of occurrence of dangerous failures; those are given qualitatively but they are assigned quantitative equivalents elsewhere (oddly, in the acceptable means of compliance).

PBL Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany Je suis Charlie
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