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A GQM Based Approach towards the Development of Metrics for Software Safety

Kotti Jayasri1 and Panchumarthy Seetharamaiah2
  • 1 GMR Institute of Technology, India
  • 2 Andhra University, India

Abstract

Software sometimes safety-critical if it resides in a safety-critical computer systems and it causes or contributes to hazards. Therefore, Safety-critical software intensive systems require verification and validation to confirm that they function as per the safety requirements. Software Safety is a combination of many factors. Metrics are commonly used in engineering as measures for the performance of a system on a given attribute. This paper presents a methodology for software safety framework based on Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) Approach. The proposed methodology was applied to a safety-critical Railroad Crossing Control System (RCCS) which is a laboratory prototype. The outcomes of the prototype are satisfactory and observed that safety risks are within the acceptable threshold level.

Journal of Computer Science
Volume 11 No. 6, 2015, 813-820

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2015.813.820

Submitted On: 10 January 2015 Published On: 30 September 2015

How to Cite: Jayasri, K. & Seetharamaiah, P. (2015). A GQM Based Approach towards the Development of Metrics for Software Safety. Journal of Computer Science, 11(6), 813-820. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2015.813.820

Open AccessCopyright: © 2015 Kotti Jayasri and Panchumarthy Seetharamaiah. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Safety Metrics
  • Safety Metrics Framework
  • Hazard Analysis
  • GQM and RCCS