[SystemSafety] Candidates for the firing squad

[David Haworth]

On 2018-09-20 14:21:40 +0000, Andy Ashworth wrote:
>    If the claim of a lint-type tool being static analysis is a “WTF
>    Moment” then I dread to think what reaction you will have to this...
>    A few years ago, I was reviewing claims of SIL4 compliance (against
>    EN50128) made for some software for a train control system. When
>    challenged as to which static analysis tool had been used, the answer
>    was “peer review”... it wasn’t even a structured Fagan type review,
>    just another engineer reading the code and signing off as acceptable!

I think that deserves a WTF*ingF  ;-)

>    This is what can happen when a standard is retrospectively applied by
>    non-experts to an existing mature development process.

Not even retrospectively in some cases :-(

Dave

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