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Subject: Re: Software Safety
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Date: 22 Feb 89 17:30:41 GMT
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For an article that is perhaps more easily accessible than the SEI Curriculum
Module on software safety, try:

    Nancy Leveson.  "Software Safety:  Why, What, and How."  _Computing_
	_Surveys,_ Vol. 18, No. 2, June 1986, pp. 125-163.

This article is an overview of the field of software safety and contains an
extensive bibliography.

For those interested in general system safety issues, not confined to software
safety, try this book:

    Charles Perrow.  _Normal_Accidents:__Living_With_High-Risk_Technologies._
	New York, NY:  Basic Books, 1984.

Alan Kaminsky                           P. O. Box 9887
School of Computer Science              Rochester, NY  14623
Rochester Institute of Technology       716-475-5255
ark@cs.rit.edu