Derivation of Railway Software Safety Criteria and Management Procedure

Author

Joung, Euijin ; Lee, Hanmin ; Oh, Sechan ; Kim, Gildong

Author_Institution

Adv. EMU Res. Corps., Korea Railroad Res. Inst. (KRRI), Uiwang, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

67

Abstract

Ariane 5 rocket which is a test flight of European Space Agency was exploded 37 seconds after launch due to a malfunction in the control software. The amount of this loss is more than US$370 million. The accident has initiated the criticality of the software safety. Nowadays software is widely used in the safety critical system because of the merit of the flexibility. But the flexibility makes it difficult to predict the software failures. This paper suggests software safety criteria for the safety critical railway system and describes the quality management procedure of the railway software.

Keywords

railway safety; railways; safety-critical software; software development management; software quality; control software; railway software quality management; railway software safety; safety critical railway system; safety critical system; software failures; Accidents; Product safety; Quality management; Rail transportation; Railway safety; Rockets; Software quality; Software safety; Software testing; Space technology; Process oriented view point; Product oriented view point; Quality management procedure; Railway software safety criteria;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Multimedia Technology, 2009. ICIMT '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3922-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMT.2009.53

Filename

5381246