Two viewpoints for software failures and their relation in probabilistic safety assessment of digital instrumentation and control systems
- Authors
- Kim, Man Cheol
- Issue Date
- Apr-2015
- Publisher
- TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- reliability; PSA; digital instrumentation and control; software reliability; safety assessment; software testing
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, v.52, no.4, pp 472 - 480
- Pages
- 9
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 52
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 472
- End Page
- 480
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/9654
- DOI
- 10.1080/00223131.2014.931829
- ISSN
- 0022-3131
1881-1248
- Abstract
- As the use of digital systems in nuclear power plants increases, the reliability of the software becomes one of the important issues in probabilistic safety assessment. In this paper, two viewpoints for a software failure during the operation of a digital system or a statistical software test are identified, and the relation between them is provided. In conventional software reliability analysis, a failure is mainly viewed with respect to the system operation. A new viewpoint with respect to the system input is suggested. The failure probability density functions for the two viewpoints are defined, and the relation between the two failure probability density functions is derived. Each failure probability density function can be derived from the other failure probability density function by applying the derived relation between the two failure probability density functions. The usefulness of the derived relation is demonstrated by applying it to the failure data obtained from the software testing of a real system. The two viewpoints and their relation, as identified in this paper, are expected to help us extend our understanding of the reliability of safety-critical software.
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