International Council on Systems Engineering Website. An Ontological Approach to Systematization of SW-FMEA. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a widely used dependability and safety technique aiming at systematically identifying failure modes, their generating causes and their effects on the system. While FMEA has been mainly thought for hardware systems, its use is also advocated for software (SW-FMEA). This involves several major challenges, such as the complexity of functional requirements, the difficulty to identify failure modes of SW components, the elusive nature of faults. We present an approach for efficient and effective manipulation of data involved in the SW-FMEA process, introducing an ontological model which formalizes concepts involved in the analysis.
The methodology provides a common conceptual framework supporting cohesion across different stages of a development life-cycle, giving a precise semantics to concepts collected in the artifacts of an industrial documentation process. Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration. ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Version 5.7, 7 November 2013 What is ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010? ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 is an International Standard entitled, Systems and software engineering — Architecture description. The Standard, published in 2011, is the result of a joint ISO and IEEE revision of the earlier IEEE Std 1471:2000, IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems.
IEEE 1471 was developed by the IEEE Architecture Working Group under the sponsorship of the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee. In September 2000, the IEEE Standards Board approved IEEE 1471 for use. In March 2006, IEEE 1471 was adopted as an ISO standard. ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 replaces both ISO/IEC 42010:2007 and IEEE Std 1471:2000. What does the Standard standardize? The original IEEE 1471 specified requirements on the contents of architecture descriptions of systems. What kind of systems does the Standard cover? The focus of the Standard is on three classes of systems: The key tenets of the Standard are: 1. Geoffrey C. Bowker.