Overview
- First book about how to write an (agile) safety case, based on the standard EN 50129:2003
- Describes in detail what content needs to be included to satisfy the legal requirements
- Provides infrastructure managers, suppliers and consultants with numerous concrete examples and relevant agile practices
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
The book discusses both "regular" safety cases and agile safety cases, which avoid too much documentation, improve communication between the stakeholders, allow quicker approval of the system, and  which are important in the light of rapidly changing technology. In addition, it discusses the necessity of frequently updating software due to market requirements, changes in requirements and increased cyber-security threats.
After a general introduction to SCs and agile thinking in chapter 1, chapter 2 describes the majority of the roles that are relevant when developing railway-signaling systems. Next, chapter 3 provides information related to the assessment of signaling systems, to certifications based on IEC 61508 and to the authorization of signaling systems. Chapter 4 then explains how an agile safety plan satisfying the requirements given in EN 50126-1:1999 can be developed, while chapter 5 provides a brief introduction to safety case patterns and notations. Lastly, chapter 6 combines all this and describes how an (agile) SC can be developed and what it should include.
To ensure that infrastructure managers, suppliers, consultants and others can take full advantage of the agile mind-set, the book includes concrete examples and presents relevant agile practices. Although the scope of the book is limited to signaling systems, the basic foundations for (agile) SCs are clearly described so that they can also be applied in other cases.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Tor Stålhane is professor emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He holds a PhD in statistics and is currently doing research in software engineering and system safety analysis. He is one of the founders of SafeScrum.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Agile Safety Case
Authors: Thor Myklebust, Tor Stålhane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70265-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70264-3Published: 07 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88912-2Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70265-0Published: 29 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 235
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Software Engineering, Software Management, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Management of Computing and Information Systems