The Agile Safety Case - Thor Myklebust Tor Stålhane Kartoniert (TB)

The safety case (SC) is one of the railway industry's most important deliverables for creating confidence in their systems. This is the first book on how to write an SC based on the standard EN 50129:2003. Experience has shown that preparing and understanding an SC is difficult and time consuming and as such the book provides insights that enhance the training for writing an SC. The book discusses both regular safety cases and agile safety cases which avoid too much documentation improve communication between the stakeholders allow quicker approval of the system and which are important i n the light of rapidly changing technology. In addition it discusses the necessity of frequently updating software due to market requirements changes in requirements and increased cyber-security threats. After a general introduction to SCs and agile thinking in chapter 1 chapter 2 describes the majority of the roles that are relevant when developing railway-signaling systems. Next chapter 3 provides information related to the assessment of signaling systems to certifications based on IEC 61508 and to the authorization of signaling systems. Chapter 4 then explains how an agile safety plan satisfying the requirements given in EN 50126-1:1999 can be developed while chapter 5 provides a brief introduction to safety case patterns and notations. Lastly chapter 6 combines all this and describes how an (agile) SC can be developed and what it should include. To ensure that infrastructure managers suppliers consultants and others can take full advantage of the agile mind-set the book includes concrete examples and presents relevant agile practices. Although the scope of the book is limited to signaling systems the basic foundations for (agile) SCs are clearly described so that they can also be applied in other cases.