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M. Hecht, R. Brill, Review Guidelines for Software Written in High Level Programming
Language Used in Safety Systems, Water Reactor Safety Meeting, Bethesda, MD, October
22, 1997
This paper provides an overview of the results of NRC-sponsored research on guidelines
for review of software written in high level languages for use in safety systems.
These guidelines were developed using a 3-level hierarchical framework consisting
of top level, intermediate, and base attributes. The top level attributes of reliability,
robustness, traceability, and maintainability were developed in order to define
general qualities of software related to safety. Intermediate attributes were then
developed to describe the top level attributes in greater detail. At the lowest
level are the base attributes which were defined to be sufficiently specific to
derive language specific guidelines. These attributes were then used to develop
specific guidelines for a total of 9 languages. The resulting guidelines are available
in the form of both a NUREG report and HTML files.
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