Requirements Engineering for Safety-Critical Systems: An Interview Study with Industry Practitioners

We have conducted in-depth interviews with experienced practitioners in the Safety-Critical Systems (SCS) domain in order to investigate several aspects related to requirements specification and safety analysis for SCS. We interviewed 19 practitioners from eleven SCS companies in different domains w...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on software engineering 2020-04, Vol.46 (4), p.346-361
Main Authors: Martins, Luiz Eduardo G., Gorschek, Tony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accident prevention
Certification
Companies
Computer software
Domains
Industry
Interviews
Requirements
Requirements analysis
Requirements engineering
Requirements specifications
Safety
Safety critical
Safety Critical Systems
Scandium
SCS
Security systems
Software
Software and system safeties
Software and System Safety
Software Engineering
Specification
Specifications
Unified modeling language
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Summary:We have conducted in-depth interviews with experienced practitioners in the Safety-Critical Systems (SCS) domain in order to investigate several aspects related to requirements specification and safety analysis for SCS. We interviewed 19 practitioners from eleven SCS companies in different domains with the intention of verifying which approaches they use day-to-day, and what their perceptions are in relation to the approaches used to elicit, analyze, specify and validate safety requirements. The aim of this study is to obtain an in-depth understanding of how requirements engineering is carried out in companies that develop SCS.
ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.2018.2854716