[SystemSafety] Safety Culture redux (David Green)

[Steve Tockey]

IEEE already has a recommended vocabulary:

Incident = any difference between the observed result and the expected result

Failure = it has been determined that the observed result is incorrect 

Fault or Defect = the aspect of the code caused the incorrect result


If adequate vocabulary already exists, why try to invent new terms?


― steve 


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> On Feb 21, 2018, at 3:38 PM, GREEN, David <david.green at baesystems.com> wrote:
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> I encourage our software people to use the word 'fault'.
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> Even the original six legged bug was foreseeable. They had experience with valve/tube equipment but I assume were experimenters with a big budget ...
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>> What I like about errors and dislike about bugs is if we go back to the origin of the term ?bug,? it was an inadvertent happenstance beyond the control of the computer builder. I.e., literally a bug  that flew into the tubes. What we today call ?bugs? are not the universe sending a six-legged, winged creature into our creation (i.e., a random, unavoidable event), but a mistake or error that possibly could have been avoided.
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