Course topics:

From concept to system decomposition: What software people must know.

Software Development Process (ISO 26262 - Part 6)

     Content of the Software Safety Process

     Initiation and tailoring

Software Safety Requirements Specification:

     Sources of Software Safety Requirements and interfaces to System Level

     Interpretation of properties and attributes required by ISO26262

     Practical methods how to derive and detail requirements for the software

     Methods for the verification of Software Safety Requirements

Hardware Software Interface Specification

     Interfaces to the Software Safety Requirements and Software Architecture

Software Architecture:

     How to develop a Software Architecture acc. to ISO26262

     Semi-formal architecture development - interpretation of ISO26262

     Measures to be considered

     ASIL Decomposition at the software level

     How to implement Freedom from Interference

     Safety requirements allocation to software architectural components

     Methods for the verification of the Software Architecture.

Software Unit Design

     Content of a semi-formal Software Unit Design Specification

     Interpretation of design requirements recommended by ISO26262

     How to deal with OO programming languages (C++)

     Methods for the verification of the software unit design

Software Safety Verification

     Software Analysis Techniques

         Software Criticality Analysis

         Software Dependent Failure Analysis

     Software  Testing Techniques (Unit and Integration Testing)

         Requirements based (Equivalence Classes, Boundary Values, etc.)

         Structure based (Statement Coverage, MCDC, Call Coverage, etc.)

Tool classification and qualification

Software qualification, How to deal with existing components.