Case Studies: Using Failure History to Improve Reliability

2/4/2000


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Case Studies: Using Failure History to Improve Reliability

Contents

NIST Project to Build Fault Profiles

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Purpose of Studies

Case Study 1

Medical Device Data

Information for Each Device

Failures 1983-1997 by Device

Observed Behavior

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A Few Fault Characteristics

Fault Distribution by Class

Case Study 2

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Prevalent Faults

General Findings

EXAMPLE: Prevalent Faults

EXAMPLES of Prevention, Detection

Examples (con’t)

To Overcome Faults of Case Studies

Traceability Analysis

Change Impact Analysis

EVALUATION

EVALUATION (Con’t)

Practices for Development & Maintenance

Practices for Assurance

Practices for Testing

Testing (con’t)

Conclusions & Questions

Author: Dolores Wallace

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