A Human Factors fault tree analysis method for software engineering

Author

Yanyan, Zheng ; Renzuo, Xu

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Software Eng., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1971

Lastpage

1975

Abstract

Human Factors Analysis has realistic and profound significance to improve the quality and reliability of software. However, there is little research on the methods applied in software engineering to analyze human error. This paper proposes a human factors analysis method, which applies the fault tree analysis method to seek the human factors causing software accidents. Fault tree analysis method brings great flexibility and it is a graph deduction, which makes it easier to find the critical links of human errors.

Keywords

fault trees; human factors; software quality; software reliability; fault tree analysis method; graph deduction method; human error analysis; human factors analysis method; software engineering; software quality; software reliability; Accidents; Fault trees; Human factors; Missiles; Power system reliability; Programming; Safety; Software engineering; Software quality; US Department of Transportation; fault tree analysis method; human error; human factors; minimum cut set;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2008. IEEM 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2629-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2630-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2008.4738216

Filename

4738216