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B. Dejneka

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New IEC projects on software safety from view of European railways B. Dejneka Federal Research and Test Centre Arsenal, A-1030 Vienna, Faradaygasse 3, Austria ABSTRACT In this contribution some aspects of the standardization work were mentioned with regard to the software safety: aspects of the terminology, independence the software characteristics and structure of the application, co-ordination of the standardization work and harmonization of documents of different organizations or within the same organization. There were shortly presented running projects (and their connections) of the international standardization bodies (e.g. IEC, CENELEC) from the area of software engineering/software safety. 1. INTRODUCTION Through the entrance of the computers in the different fields of the technology, particularly in the safety relevant applications (also in the railway technics), the standardization of different software aspects (e.g. quality, validation, metrics) became an impe

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