Static analysis can be a valuable quality assurance technique as it can find problems by analysing the source code of a system without executing it. Getting used to a static analysis tool, however, can easily take several hours or even days. In particular, understanding the warnings issued by the tool and rooting out the false positives is time consuming. This lowers the benefits of static anal...

Assurance Based Development (ABD) is an approach to the construction of critical computing systems in which the system and an argument that it meets its assurance goals are developed simultaneously. ABD touches all aspects of the system lifecycle, but in this paper we focus on how the evolving assurance argument can guide architectural choices to increase system dependability. The goals with th...