[SystemSafety] Candidates for the firing squad
David Haworth
david.haworth at elektrobit.com
Fri Sep 21 07:46:40 CEST 2018
On 2018-09-20 14:21:40 +0000, Andy Ashworth wrote:
> If the claim of a lint-type tool being static analysis is a “WTF
> Moment” then I dread to think what reaction you will have to this...
> A few years ago, I was reviewing claims of SIL4 compliance (against
> EN50128) made for some software for a train control system. When
> challenged as to which static analysis tool had been used, the answer
> was “peer review”... it wasn’t even a structured Fagan type review,
> just another engineer reading the code and signing off as acceptable!
I think that deserves a WTF*ingF ;-)
> This is what can happen when a standard is retrospectively applied by
> non-experts to an existing mature development process.
Not even retrospectively in some cases :-(
Dave
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