[SystemSafety] Fetzer

Nick Tudor njt at tudorassoc.com
Thu Jun 20 17:27:26 CEST 2019


When I get a laptop connection and I’ve stopped travelling, I’ll see if I
can remember to send a paper. If I forget, please drop me a line.

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 16:17, Littlewood, Bev <Bev.Littlewood.1 at city.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Yes. I agree, of course!
>
> B
>
> Sent from my iPhone (in case you thought I always typed like this...)
>
> Bev Littlewood
> Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering
> Centre for Software Reliability
> City University, London EC1V 0HB
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> > On 20 Jun 2019, at 16:12, Martyn Thomas <martyn at thomas-associates.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Bev
> >
> > I agree, of course.
> >
> > There's a lot bound up in your phrase "in appropriate circumstances" ...
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> >> On 20/06/2019 15:53, Littlewood, Bev wrote:
> >> Hi Martyn
> >>
> >> Your comment about claims based on process conformance is spot on. But
> >> I think you may be too harsh on testing. Testing may, in appropriate
> >> circumstances, allow justifiable probabilistic claims for reliability
> >> - something I don’t think you can get from verification (although this
> >> is not intended to be a criticism of the latter).
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Bev
> >
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