In safety–critical applications, it is necessary to justify, prior to deployment, why software behaviour is to be trusted. This is normally referred to as software safety assurance. Within certification standards, developers demonstrate this by appealing to the satisfaction of objectives that the safety assurance standards require for compliance. In some standards the objectives can be very det...

This paper explores generating and conveying confidence in enterprise security. An enterprise assurance framework provides a structure enterprise assurance evidence that strengthens and clarifies the overall enterprise assurance argument. The structure and components of these arguments are defined and then applied to an enterprise. Finally, standards of evidence and evidence trade-offs are ment...

The design guideline avoid dependency cycles among modules was first alluded to by Parnas in 1978. Many tools have since been built to detect cyclic dependencies among a program’s organisational units, yet we still see real applications riddled with large dependency cycles. Our solution to this problem is to proactively check for dependency cycles as a developer writes code. In this way a cycle...

The social inclusion policies are implemented in the higher education sector to provide access and opportunity for all groups of people irrespective of their social class to participate in higher education. Such policies ensure that every citizen has access to elite education which enables them to succeed and improve their life chances. The renewal of quality assurance in Australian higher educ...

Online education is used for a variety of purposes in higher education. Two such purposes are improving one’s performance over time and understanding one’s professional development in the context of online teaching and learning. Relying on data from online staff development courses delivered in five Spanish universities, this article explores online faculty learning through the lens of staff de...

In this chapter the results of the transnational analysis are presented. First, the contexts of Quality Assurance in (I)VET in the six project countries are described. Next, the case study results for all six countries are compared as a basis for drawing conclusions on which factors overall matter for review activities in quality assurance. The final section (10.4) includes some general conclus...

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The ‘industry’ of research publication has now grown to mammoth proportions and its participants—authors, reviewers, editors, publishers and more—come from increasingly diverse locations and backgrounds, including of language. However, the language in which the vast majority of this research is published is now English, a situation that incorporates both advantages and disadvantages for partici...