Towards an Argument Pattern for the Use of Safety Performance Indicators

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Main Authors: Ratiu, Daniel, Rohlinger, Tihomir, Stolte, Torben, Wagner, Stefan
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Published: 2024
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author Ratiu, Daniel
Rohlinger, Tihomir
Stolte, Torben
Wagner, Stefan
author_facet Ratiu, Daniel
Rohlinger, Tihomir
Stolte, Torben
Wagner, Stefan
contents UL 4600, the safety standard for autonomous products, mandates the use of Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) to continuously ensure the validity of safety cases by monitoring and taking action when violations are identified. Despite numerous examples of concrete SPIs available in the standard and companion literature, their contribution rationale for achieving safety is often left implicit. In this paper, we present our initial work towards an argument pattern for the use of SPIs to ensure validity of safety cases throughout the entire lifecycle of the system. Our aim is to make the implicit argument behind using SPIs explicit, and based on this, to analyze the situations that can undermine confidence in the chosen set of SPIs. To maintain the confidence in SPIs' effectiveness, we propose an approach to continuously monitor their expected performance by using meta-SPIs.
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spellingShingle Towards an Argument Pattern for the Use of Safety Performance Indicators
Ratiu, Daniel
Rohlinger, Tihomir
Stolte, Torben
Wagner, Stefan
Software Engineering
UL 4600, the safety standard for autonomous products, mandates the use of Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) to continuously ensure the validity of safety cases by monitoring and taking action when violations are identified. Despite numerous examples of concrete SPIs available in the standard and companion literature, their contribution rationale for achieving safety is often left implicit. In this paper, we present our initial work towards an argument pattern for the use of SPIs to ensure validity of safety cases throughout the entire lifecycle of the system. Our aim is to make the implicit argument behind using SPIs explicit, and based on this, to analyze the situations that can undermine confidence in the chosen set of SPIs. To maintain the confidence in SPIs' effectiveness, we propose an approach to continuously monitor their expected performance by using meta-SPIs.
title Towards an Argument Pattern for the Use of Safety Performance Indicators
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00578