The traditional environments for safety-related hardware and software such as avionics, rail and nuclear have been joined by others (such as automotive and medical devices) as systems become increasingly complex and ever more reliant on embedded software. In tandem, further industry-specific safety standards (including ISO 26262 for automotive applications and IEC 62304 for medical device software) have been introduced to ensure that hardware and software in these application areas has been developed and tested to achieve a defined level of integrity. In this session, we will be explaining some of these changes and how they can be implemented. We'll be covering the impact of safety standards on requirements: how they need to be defined; how they need to be managed; and how they need to be mapped to tests to demonstrate that they have been implemented correctly. We will also explore how techniques such as static analysis and automated dynamic testing provide a foundation for a verification strategy that will ensure compliance with safety standards.
