Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Computer Science |
Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
Period: |
- Semester 1
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Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
Assessment Detail: | |
Supplementary Assessment: |
- CM30072 Mandatory Extra Work (where allowed by programme regulations)
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Requisites: |
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Description:
| Aims: To give an appreciation of the current state of safe systems development. To develop an understanding of risk in systems. To give a foundation in hazard analysis models and techniques. To show how safety principles may be built into all stages of the software development process.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course a student should be able to demonstrate the following:
1. An understanding of the nature of risk in developing computer-based systems.
2. The ability to choose and apply appropriate hazard analysis models for simple safety-related problems.
3. An understanding of how to approach the design of safety-critical software systems.
Skills: IT (T, A).
Content: The nature of risk: computers and risk; how accidents happen; human error. System safety: historical approaches to system safety; basic concepts and terminology. Managing the development of safety-critical systems. Modeling human error and the accident process. Hazard analysis: basic principles; models and techniques. Safety principles in the software lifecycle: hazard analysis as part of requirements analysis; designing for safety; designing the human-machine interface; verification of safety in computer systems.
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Programme availability: |
CM30072 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Computer Science
- USCM-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Computer Information Systems (Year 3)
- USCM-AAB12 : BSc(Hons) Computer Information Systems with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCM-AKB12 : BSc(Hons) Computer Information Systems with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- USCM-AFB06 : BSc(Hons) Computer Science (Year 3)
- USCM-AAB07 : BSc(Hons) Computer Science with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCM-AKB07 : BSc(Hons) Computer Science with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- USCM-AFM01 : MComp(Hons) Computer Science (Year 3)
- USCM-AAM02 : MComp(Hons) Computer Science with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCM-AKM02 : MComp(Hons) Computer Science with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- USCM-AFB09 : BSc(Hons) Computer Science with Business (Year 3)
- USCM-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Computer Science with Business with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCM-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Computer Science with Business with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
- UEEE-AFM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 4)
- UEEE-AKM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
- TSMA-AFM08 : MSc Modern Applications of Mathematics
- TSMA-AWM14 : MSc Modern Applications of Mathematics
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