TY - BOOK ID - 32075400 TI - The Agile Safety Case AU - Myklebust, Thor. AU - Stålhane, Tor. PY - 2018 SN - 3319702653 3319702645 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - System safety. KW - Computer science. KW - Management information systems. KW - Software engineering. KW - Transportation engineering. KW - Traffic engineering. KW - Computer Science. KW - Software Engineering. KW - Software Management. KW - Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering. KW - Management of Computing and Information Systems. KW - Computer-based information systems KW - EIS (Information systems) KW - Executive information systems KW - MIS (Information systems) KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Information resources management KW - Management KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Communication systems KW - Safety, System KW - Safety of systems KW - Systems safety KW - Accidents KW - Industrial safety KW - Systems engineering KW - Prevention KW - Traffic Engineering. KW - Information Systems. KW - Engineering, Traffic KW - Road traffic KW - Street traffic KW - Traffic, City KW - Traffic control KW - Traffic regulation KW - Urban traffic KW - Highway engineering KW - Transportation engineering KW - Computer software engineering KW - Engineering KW - Civil engineering UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32075400 AB - The safety case (SC) is one of the railway industry’s most important deliverables for creating confidence in their systems. This is the first book on how to write an SC, based on the standard EN 50129:2003. Experience has shown that preparing and understanding an SC is difficult and time consuming, and as such the book provides insights that enhance the training for writing an SC. The book discusses both "regular" safety cases and agile safety cases, which avoid too much documentation, improve communication between the stakeholders, allow quicker approval of the system, and  which are important in the light of rapidly changing technology. In addition, it discusses the necessity of frequently updating software due to market requirements, changes in requirements and increased cyber-security threats. After a general introduction to SCs and agile thinking in chapter 1, chapter 2 describes the majority of the roles that are relevant when developing railway-signaling systems. Next, chapter 3 provides information related to the assessment of signaling systems, to certifications based on IEC 61508 and to the authorization of signaling systems. Chapter 4 then explains how an agile safety plan satisfying the requirements given in EN 50126-1:1999 can be developed, while chapter 5 provides a brief introduction to safety case patterns and notations. Lastly, chapter 6 combines all this and describes how an (agile) SC can be developed and what it should include. To ensure that infrastructure managers, suppliers, consultants and others can take full advantage of the agile mind-set, the book includes concrete examples and presents relevant agile practices. Although the scope of the book is limited to signaling systems, the basic foundations for (agile) SCs are clearly described so that they can also be applied in other cases. ER -