Software safety and economics

Author

Michael, James B. ; Fortier, S.C. ; McHugh, Justin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Software Syst. Eng., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA

fYear

1992

fDate

15-18 Jun 1992

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

101

Abstract

A panel session regarding the economics of building or retrofitting safety into software systems is summarized. The issues discussed include cost benefit analysis of security systems; investment in safety-related activities; a definition of software safety; economic analysis methodology; the measurement of the economic utility of software systems, and the safety-related attributes of a system and the software life cycle; the level of formality that should be attempted in developing economic models of safety-critical software systems; and traditional cost-benefit analysis approaches for making investment decisions concerning safety-critical systems

Keywords

safety; software cost estimation; software reliability; cost benefit analysis; cost-benefit analysis; economic analysis; economic models; economic utility; formality; investment; safety; safety-critical software systems; safety-related activities; security systems; software life cycle; software safety; software systems; Cost benefit analysis; Econometrics; Information security; Investments; National security; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software safety; Software systems; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Assurance, 1992. COMPASS '92. 'Systems Integrity, Software Safety and Process Security: Building the System Right.', Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Gaithersburg, MD

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0579-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPASS.1992.235759

Filename

235759