Towards Continuous Safety Assessment in Context of DevOps
This addresses the need for regulatory compliance and faster deployment in safety-critical industries, but appears incremental as it builds on existing model-based methods.
The paper tackles the challenge of automating safety assessment processes to enable continuous delivery in safety-critical systems, proposing a model-based approach integrated into a delivery pipeline.
Traditionally, promoted by the internet companies, continuous delivery is more and more appealing to industries which develop systems with safety-critical functions. Since safety-critical systems must meet regulatory requirements and require specific safety assessment processes in addition to the normal development steps, enabling continuous delivery of software in safety-critical systems requires the automation of the safety assessment process in the delivery pipeline. In this paper, we outline a continuous delivery pipeline for realizing continuous safety assessment in software-intensive safety-critical systems based on model-based safety assessment methods.