WHAT MAKES SOFTWARE SUITABLE FOR HIGH INTEGRITY APPLICATIONS?

The field of system safety has led the way in risk-based development and assessment.  In particular its focus is to predict and prevent things going wrong rather than merely finding the fixing them when they do.

Importantly, the approaches, techniques and way of thinking are all relevant - and in the future will be essential - to the development of high-integrity systems in all domains, such as finance-critical and mission-critical systems. Given that we can't prove software correct, a claim for high integrity can only be based on a risk-based approach.

This presentation explains risk and its application to predicting how things can go wrong and to building confidence that they won't.

On behalf of Australian Safety Critical Systems Association and Risk Engineering Society we welcome our International Speaker Felix Redmill to Australia.