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Argument-based assurance cases, often represented and | |
organized using graphical argument structures, are | |
increasingly being used in practice to provide assurance | |
to stakeholders, e.g., regulatory authorities, that a | |
system is acceptable for its intended use with respect to | |
dependability and safety concerns. In general, | |
comprehensive system-wide assurance arguments aggregate a | |
substantial amount of diverse information, such as the | |
results of safety analysis, requirements analysis, | |
design, verification and other engineering activities. | |
Although a variety of assurance case tools exist, many | |
desirable argument structure operations such as | |
hierarchical and modular abstraction, argument pattern | |
instantiation, and inclusion extraction of richly | |
structured information have limited to no automation | |
support. Consequently, a considerable amount of time and | |
effort can be spent in creating, understanding, | |
evaluating, and managing argument structures. Over the | |
past three years, we have been developing a toolset for | |
assurance case automation, AdvoCATE, at the NASA Ames | |
Research Center, to close this automation gap. This paper | |
describes how AdvoCATE is being engineered atop formal | |
foundations for assurance case argument structures, to | |
provide unique capabilities for: (a) automated creation | |
and assembly of assurance arguments, (b) integration of | |
formal methods into wider assurance arguments, (c) | |
automated pattern instantiation, (d) hierarchical | |
abstraction, (e) queries and views, and (f) verification | |
of arguments. We (and our colleagues) have used AdvoCATE | |
in real projects for safety and airworthiness assurance, | |
in the context of both manned and unmanned aircraft | |
systems. | |
Date Published: 2022-07-02 23:04:59 | |
Identifier: NASA_NTRS_Archive_20170011550 | |
Item Size: 60999921 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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