Pattern-based safety development methods

Abstract

Design patterns provide good solutions to re-occurring problems and several patterns and methods how to apply them have been documented for safety-critical systems. However, due to the large amount of safety-related patterns and methods, it is difficult to get an overview of their capabilities and shortcomings as there currently is no survey on safety patterns and their application methods available in literature.To give an overview of existing pattern-based safety development methods, this paper presents existing methods from literature and discusses and compares several aspects of these methods such as the patterns and tools they use, their integration into a safety development process, or their maturity.

Supporting pattern-based dependability engineering via model-driven development: Approach, tool-support and empirical validation

“…Thus far, patterns have been used in systematic engineering approaches for various tasks, such as classification and organization, pattern selection based on security requirements ( Weiss and Mouratidis, 2008 ), analyzing and modeling security requirements ( Cheng et al, 2003 ), and measuring the introduced security level ( Fernandez et al, 2010 ). A similar situation is prevalent for safety patterns, which are surveyed in Preschern et al (2013Preschern et al ( , 2014 and formalized in Armoush, (2010 ). In Daniels and Vouks (1997 ) and Tichy et al (2004 ), the pattern specification consists of a service-based architectural design and deployment restrictions in the form of UML deployment diagrams for different architectural services.…”