Towards Continuous Safety Assessment in Context of DevOps

TL;DR

This paper proposes a continuous safety assessment pipeline for safety-critical systems using model-based safety assessment methods to enable automated, continuous delivery in safety-critical software development.

Contribution

It introduces a novel continuous delivery pipeline specifically designed for safety-critical systems, integrating safety assessment automation.

Findings

Proposes a pipeline integrating safety assessment into continuous delivery

Demonstrates feasibility of automating safety assessments in safety-critical systems

Enhances safety compliance in DevOps environments

Abstract

Traditionally, promoted by the internet companies, continuous delivery is more and more appealing to industries which develop systems with safety-critical functions. Since safety-critical systems must meet regulatory requirements and require specific safety assessment processes in addition to the normal development steps, enabling continuous delivery of software in safety-critical systems requires the automation of the safety assessment process in the delivery pipeline. In this paper, we outline a continuous delivery pipeline for realizing continuous safety assessment in software-intensive safety-critical systems based on model-based safety assessment methods.