Course
Course Catalog URL:
Identifier:
COM S 4150
- Credits and contact hours: 3 credits, 3 contact hours
- Instructor’s or course coordinator’s name: Robyn Lutz
- Text book, title, author, and year: None required
- Other supplemental materials: None
Specific course information
- 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.
- Prerequisites or co-requisites: COM S 309 or COM S 311
- Required, elective, or selected elective? Selected Elective
Specific goals for the course
- 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