The ESA/NASA SOHO mission interruption: Using the STAMP accident analysis technique for a software related 'mishap'

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1177-1198

  Johnson, C W ^a   Holloway, C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident investigation; Causation; Mishap investigation; Software mishaps; SOHO; STAMP

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; OBSERVATORIES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEM THEORY;

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0141973873     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.544     Document Type: Article

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