[SystemSafety] Current Affairs in Standardisation

[Derek M Jones]

Peter,

> First, the 61508 maintenance teams are nearing agreement on a CD. The official maintenance phase has not yet been 

I hope that there is no mention of the accounting fraud that
is cyclomatic complexity.

>                  .... The proven-in-use criteria for SW, for example, were written in 2013-2015 after an initial 
> proposal by Germany (we had ourselves worked on the proposal for a year at least). It became IEC TS 61508-3-1:2016.

"proven-in-use" is prone to so much misinterpretation.

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Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
blog:https://shape-of-code.com