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3.3.3 Assessing System Development Tool Integrity
Author(s) -
Beland Steven C.,
Dagli Cihan H.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2003.tb02630.x
Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , context (archaeology) , abstraction , systems engineering , aviation , software engineering , engineering , business , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology , aerospace engineering
Computing tools are often used to develop and evaluate complex systems in many industries. Use of such tools enables the increasing complexity of today's systems but introduces the potential for system problems due to potential errors introduced into the system by development tools or by misleading results from evaluation tools. The consequences of tool‐related problems may range from insignificant to catastrophic, introducing risk from both the economic and safety perspectives. This paper shows how to identify the risk of potential problems introduced by the use of such tools in an overall system development context and mitigate or eliminate these risks, building on guidance originally created for the lower system abstraction levels of software and electronic hardware for commercial aviation.