The fourth
international workshop on Agile Development of Safety-Critical Software (ASCS) will be organized in conjunction with the XP 2018 conference, on May 21 in Porto.
Safety-critical systems are expanding in scope and complexity and software becomes an important and enabling technology for functional safety. This creates new opportunities and new challenges, where agile methods, practices, tools and techniques may offer opportunities to build and certify safety-critical software with lower costs in shorter time. ASCS is a meeting place to share achievements and ideas and to build your network.
The workshop will be based on a mix of presentations by an invited keynote speaker and by authors of accepted papers (approximately 20 minutes). 40-50% of the time will be reserved for discussions.
The workshop aims to cover a variety of topics, included in but not limited to the following list:
- Empirical studies, including industry experience reports
- Tools to support and automate development and certification
- Integrating safety/security into agile methods
- Agile methods introduction in safety-systems organizations
- Adapting existing agile methods for the safety critical domain
- Addressing safety standards with agile methods
- Maintaining traceability in agile methods
- Agile documentation methods including automation of documentation
- Agile analysis practices for safety-critical systems
- Change impact analysis
- Configuration management
- Compliance with safety standards
- Agility in safety assessment including assessor collaboration
- Agile Safety Cases
- DevOps and safety-critical systems
- Assurance case experience reports
Organizers:- Geir K. Hanssen (C) SINTEF ghanssen@sintef.no
- Thor Myklebust SINTEF Thor.Myklebust@sintef.no
- Janusz Górski Univ. of Gdansk jango@pg.edu.pl
The ASCS 2018 program committee: - Tim Kelly, University of York
- Stig Ole Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Katarzyna Lukasiewicz, University of Gdansk
- Efi Papatheocharous, RICE ICT
- Uwe Becker, Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
- Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen University
