Assurance provides confidence that a system will work as required and not cause harm. Confidence is based on justified beliefs about the system and its environment, and justification can be developed and documented as an assurance case comprised of a structured argument grounded on evidence. For justification to be compelling, the argument must be indefeasible, meaning that we have so thoroughl...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is starting two ambitious projects to (1) develop a taxonomy of software security flaws and vulnerabilities, (2) develop a taxonomy of software assurance (SA) functions and techniques which detect those flaws, (3) perform and maintain a survey of SA tools implementing the functions, (4) develop testable specifications of SA function...

A small, manageable number of common software safety assurance principles can be observed from software assurance standards and industry best practice. We briefly describe these assurance principles and explain how they can be used as the basis for creating software safety arguments.

The Government has just issued Resolution No. 154/NQ-CP Action Program to implement 24-NQ/TW of the Politburo on socio-economic development and assurance national defense security in Southeast region. Ministry 2030, vision 2045. action program aims concretize goals, tasks solutions mentioned order exploit promote efficiency, potential advantages each locality. region particular general, contrib...

In the present investigation, the necessary tests for implementing a quality assurance program for a commercial treatment planning system (TPS), recently installed at Sao Paulo University School of Medicine Clinicas Hospital-Brazil, was established and performed in accordance with the new IAEA publication TRS 430, and with AAPM Task Group 53. The tests recommended by those documents are classif...

Quality is an important factor in software industry. Software quality depends upon the customer satisfaction which can be achieved through applying standards. In this era achieving quality software is very important because of the high customer demands. Developed countries are excelling in software industry and improving day by day. Meanwhile developing countries like Pakistan are struggling wi...