[SystemSafety] Comparing reliability predictions with reality

[Dewi Daniels]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 19:07, Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin <
ladkin at causalis.com> wrote:

> On 2025-02-24 19:55 , Robert P Schaefer wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> >    You have me there, I can’t speak to DAL A and would like to know more.
> >
> >    Could you reference a software engineering or computer science
> textbook that covers the topic?
>
> I can't, but others here (such as Dewi Daniels) maybe can. The relevant
> standards are RTCA DO-178C
> and RTCA DO-333. They of course cost money, but NASA has oodles of tech
> reports on the topic.There
> are NASA experts on this list who could say more.


The best book I have read on DO-178C is Developing Safety-Critical
Software: A Practical Guide for Aviation Software and DO-178C Compliance by
Leanna Rierson. Leanna is a former Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor
for airborne software at the FAA and she was a member of the committee that
wrote DO-178C.

https://www.routledge.com/Developing-Safety-Critical-Software-A-Practical-Guide-for-Aviation-Software-and-DO-178C-Compliance/Rierson/p/book/9781439813683
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R0vRBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Yours,

Dewi Daniels | Director | Software Safety Limited

Telephone +44 7968 837742 | Email dewi.daniels at software-safety.com

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