| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J18217/01 |
| Title: |
ANAYLSIS AND UNIFICATION OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES IED4/1/9318 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Chung, Professor PWH |
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| Department: |
Chemical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Loughborough University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
12 July 1993 |
Ends: |
11 July 1996 |
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99,692
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Information Technologies |
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To help develop unified approaches to the development and maintenance of safety critical software by: identifying and classifying the causes of incidents/near misses in which the use of computer software is involved, across a range of industry sectors, and using the results of the incident analysis to produce a widely applicable hazard identification method, with an associated software support tool; producing a generic framework for modelling the software development process, with an associated software process modelling tool, and using the tool to model different software development approaches and thereby provide a basis for analysing and integrating the different approaches.Progress:LUT has analysed over 300 incident/near miss reports provided by two major organisations (from two different industry sectors). For a given report, the approach was to derive a set of questions, based on why an incident occurred and what questions could have been asked in the first place to prevent it, and then to generalise and group these questions to build a hazard identification methodology. The major benefits of this work are: conceived a generalised framework for analysing incidents developed a generic hazard identification methodologyA support tool based on the methodology is being developed. It is called HAZAPS (HAZard Assessment in Programmable Systems). The tool will be used to carry out industrial case studies.AIAI have produced a framework for modelling the software development process based upon an extensive review of relevant work. The framework models the artifacts produced during the software development process, the activities that produce those artifacts, the agents (people and computer systems) that carry out those activities and the development methods used. AIAI are developing a graphical support tool, called ASPEN (AUSDA Software Process ENgineering tool), for the modelling framework. Some example methods and a sample project have been entered into the tool, which has helped us to identify problems and subsequent refinements to the modelling framework. Future work includes representing parts of the DEF-STAN-00-55 standards and further methods in ASPEN such that they can be used to guide the development of a project development process plan. HAZAPS will be integrated into ASPEN.
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http://www.lboro.ac.uk |