Data Management in Data-Driven Safety-Related Systems

The increasing use of COTS components is leading to the production of a large number of systems which use standardized hardware and software that are customised for a particular situation by the use of configuration data. Where such systems are used in safety-related applications, the safety of the resulting system will often be dependent on the correctness of this data. It is therefore essential that configuration data is developed and tested to the same level of rigour as other system elements.