Feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is a paradigm for the construction,
customization, and synthesis of large-scale software systems. In this survey, we give an …

Context Critical systems in domains such as aviation, railway, and automotive are often
subject to a formal process of safety certification. The goal of this process is to ensure that …

Argument-based assurance cases, often represented and organized using graphical
argument structures, are increasingly being used in practice to provide assurance to …

In safety–critical applications, it is necessary to justify, prior to deployment, why software
behaviour is to be trusted. This is normally referred to as software safety assurance. Within …

Context Certification of safety–critical software systems requires submission of safety
assurance documents, eg, in the form of safety cases. A safety case is a justification …

Abstract Model-based development and automated code generation are increasingly used
for actual production code, in particular in mathematical and engineering domains …

Software bounded model checkers (BMC) are today powerful tools to perform verification at
unit level, but are not used at their potential in the safety critical context. One reason for this …

Formal proofs provide detailed justification for the validity of claims and are widely used in
formal software development methods. However, they are often complex and difficult to …

A safety case is a structured argument, supported by a body of evidence, which provides a
convincing and valid justification that a system is acceptably safe for a given application in a …

Due to catastrophic disasters induced by forces of nature like flooding or tsunamis, terrorism
or nuclear power plant accidents, understanding the dynamics of urban evacuation systems …