When:
May 25, 2006 at 6:45 PMWhere:
BCIT Burnaby Campus. Townsquare D in building SE2What:
Jeff Joyce, President and Co-founder of Critical Systems Labs
"Why Safety-critical Software needs more than Software Quality Assurance to Manage Safety Risk"
Abstract
Safety-critical software is found in airplanes, automobiles, medical technologies and many other kinds of systems. Quality assurance is a prerequisite for managing safety risk associated with safety-critical software. However, the management of safety risk for such systems is not simply a matter of a more rigorous approach to quality assurance. In this presentation, I will discuss some of the additional steps that need to be taken to management safety risk for complex systems involving software. I intend to leave some time available for friendly debate among participants about the similarities/differences between "quality assurance" and "safety assurance".
About Jeff Joyce
Dr. Jeffrey Joyce is co-founder and president of Critical Systems Labs (www.criticalsystemslabs.com), a division of QA Labs (www.qalabs.com). He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University in 1990, with earlier degrees from the universities of Waterloo and Calgary. Dr. Joyce is recognized internationally for his expertise in safety-critical software-intensive systems. He is a Professional Engineer, a Fellow of the BC Advanced Systems Institute, and a member of both the IEEE and the System Safety Society. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of System Safety. Past Meetings
