Challenges of scaled agile for safety-critical systems

JP Steghöfer, E Knauss, J Horkoff… - … Conference on Product …, 2019 - Springer
Automotive companies increasingly adopt scaled agile methods to allow them to deal with
their organisational and product complexity. Suitable methods are needed to ensure safety …

An industrial survey of safety evidence change impact analysis practice

JL de La Vara, M Borg, K Wnuk… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Context. In many application domains, critical systems must comply with safety standards.
This involves gathering safety evidence in the form of artefacts such as safety analyses …

Model-based specification of safety compliance needs for critical systems: A holistic generic metamodel

JL De la Vara, A Ruiz, K Attwood, H Espinoza… - Information and software …, 2016 - Elsevier
Context: Many critical systems must comply with safety standards as a way of providing
assurance that they do not pose undue risks to people, property, or the environment. Safety …

Model-based assurance evidence management for safety–critical systems

JL de la Vara, AS García, J Valero, C Ayora - Software and Systems …, 2022 - Springer
Most safety–critical systems are subject to rigorous assurance processes to justify that the
systems satisfy given requirements and are dependable. These processes are typically …

An empirical evaluation of the use of models to improve the understanding of safety compliance needs

JL de la Vara, B Marín, C Ayora, G Giachetti - Information and Software …, 2020 - Elsevier
Context Critical systems in application domains such as automotive, railway, aerospace, and
healthcare are required to comply with safety standards. The understanding of the safety …

TracIMo: a traceability introduction methodology and its evaluation in an Agile development team

S Maro, JP Steghöfer, P Bozzelli, H Muccini - Requirements Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Software traceability, the ability to relate software development artifacts such as
requirements, design models and code to each other, is an important aspect in software …

BSafeML: a model-based hazard management technique for safety-critical systems development

M Cutajar, S Ji - IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective management of hazards is at the heart of achieving acceptable safety for any safety-
critical system. With the recent advancement in model-based systems engineering, various …

Design decisions in the construction of traceability information models for safe automotive systems

JP Steghöfer, B Koopmann, JS Becker… - 2021 IEEE 29th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traceability management relies on a supporting model, the traceability information model
(TIM), that defines which types of relationships exist between which artifacts and contains …

An analysis of safety evidence management with the Structured Assurance Case Metamodel

JL de La Vara, G Génova, JM Álvarez-Rodríguez… - Computer Standards & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract SACM (Structured Assurance Case Metamodel) is a standard for assurance case
specification and exchange. It consists of an argumentation metamodel and an evidence …

Towards enhancement of fault traceability among multiple hazard analyses in cyber-physical systems

D Horn, N Ali, JE Hong - 2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When defects in safety-critical systems are exposed to actual mishaps, this can lead to
property loss, injury, and/or death. Therefore, safety analysis should be performed to identify …