Development of Quality Framework Adopting Multiple Safety-Critical Standards for Software Development Incorporating Defect Prevention Techniques

EasyChair Preprint no. 7461

Abstract

This is a case study of implementing a robust Quality Process Framework in a global embedded product company ensuring adoption of defect prevention techniques while adhering to the international safety-critical standards. It is a challenge to realise safety-critical software in adherence to multiple safety standards in an organisation. This paper presents a real-life scenario of developing and implementing an integrated Process Framework while ensuring adherence to multiple safety-critical standards. This single Process Framework supports both safety-critical and non-safety-critical software development in compliance to the requisite standard. Care was taken to ensure that sufficient defect prevention techniques were incorporated in the Process Framework. Defect prevention by way of a robust measurements at source, metrics monitoring, root cause analysis of defects and continual improvement of processes to prevent defects were incorporated. All the critical processes were piloted on multiple live projects and metrics were collected and analysed to fine-tune the process framework. Some of the key metrics are presented in this paper.

Keyphrases: Defect Prevention, functional safety, Gap Analysis, Hazard and Operability (HAZOP), IEC61508, Industry Standard, international standard, ISO26262, metric based defect prevention, metrics, MISRA, quality process framework, Quality Process Framework (PFW), Safety Integrity Level (SIL), safety-critical software, software development lifecycle (SDLC), UL 1998

@Booklet{EasyChair:7461,
  author = {Pradeep Prabhakar Oak and Umakant P. Kulkarni},
  title = {Development of Quality Framework Adopting Multiple Safety-Critical Standards for Software Development Incorporating Defect Prevention Techniques},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 7461},

  year = {EasyChair, 2022}}