[SystemSafety] The mindset for safety-critical systems design

Tim Schürmann tschuerm at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Sep 19 10:38:59 CEST 2018


Hi :)


On 18.09.2018 17:11, Olwen Morgan wrote:
>
> The two cardinal principles of critical systems design are:
>
> 1.    Whatever is not there cannot go wrong (so do not include any
> functions that you do not need).
>
> 2.    Whatever is there is less likely to go wrong the simpler it is.
>
> [...]
In the context of the above stated principles, what would be your take
on the 'Incremental development of software'
favored by Brooks in his book 'The Mythical Man-Month'? (Original Idea:
Harlan Mills 1971, afaik).

Kind regards
Tim



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