CHAPTER 1

Best Practices in Mission-Assured, Mission-Critical, and Safety-Critical Systems

Kim Fowler

1. Roadmap to This Book

The material in this book presents best practices in developing mission-assured, mission-critical, and safety-critical systems for medical devices, avionics, military equipment, and spacecraft subsystems. It is a disparate grouping. The good news is that there are threads of commonality in best practices among these systems. The acronyms may vary but best practices translate fairly easily from one area to another. The following are selected areas where best practices in one market often translate well into other markets:

• Defined processes, procedures, and quality assurance (QA) programs

• Collecting and managing requirements ...

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