Software System Safety

1. Credits and contact hours: 3 credits, 3 contact hours
2. Instructor’s or course coordinator’s name: Robyn Lutz
3. Text book, title, author, and year: None required
4. Other supplemental materials: None

Specific course information

1. Brief description of the content of the course: An introduction to the hazard analysis, safety requirements, design, and testing of software for safety-critical and high-dependability systems. Safety analysis techniques, fault identification and recovery, and certification issues. Emphasizes a case-based and systematic approach to software's role in safe systems.
2. Prerequisites or co-requisites: COM S 309 or COM S 311
3. Required, elective, or selected elective? Selected Elective

Specific goals for the course

1. Specific outcomes of instruction:

• An ability to design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program’s discipline (2)
• An ability to apply computer science theory and software development fundamentals to produce computing based (6)

Brief list of topics to be covered

• Safety requirements in software