Meta-Modelling Approach to Traceability and Consistency for Complex Safety Critical Systems Engineering

Traceability is the common term of mechanisms to record and navigate relationships between development and assessment artifacts. Effective management of these relationships is essential to the success of projects involving complex safety critical systems. Practitioners on such projects typically use a range of techniques to model and analyse the safety and reliability of the systems they are developing. Most have tool support, although poor integration leads to inconsistencies and limits traceability between their respective data sets. This paper proposes a framework that enables links to be established and consistency maintained across data from potentially disjoint safety analysis tools.

Keywords: Traceability, safety-critical systems, CASE tools

Corresponding author: E-mail: paul@shinawtra.ac.th