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The reuse of product-line assets enables efficiencies in development time and cost. Safety analysis techniques for Software Product-Line Engineering (SPLE) construct safety-related, non-code artifacts with the aim of reusing these assets for new product-line members. In this paper we describe results from the construction and reuse of a key safety-analysis technique, Product-line Software Fault Tree Analysis (PL-SFTA), and its supporting tool, PLFaultCAT. The main contribution of this work is the evaluation of PL-SFTA and PLFaultCAT for the reuse of safety analysis assets in a product line. The context is a safety-critical product line of spacecraft developed as a multi-agent system.
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Dehlinger, J., Lutz, R.R. (2009). Evaluating the Reusability of Product-Line Software Fault Tree Analysis Assets for a Safety-Critical System. In: Edwards, S.H., Kulczycki, G. (eds) Formal Foundations of Reuse and Domain Engineering. ICSR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5791. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04211-9_16
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