Application Lifecycle Management for Safety-Critical Software Development

Safety-critical software development imposes many requirements for the development methods and processes used. A lot of formal documents and design considerations have to be done. This results in longer development times and more expensive overall costs for software development projects. Having these requirements is still important because in the applications where the usage of safety-critical software development methods are required the possibility of failures causing major damage to people or material is high. Application lifecycle management is an activity under which the whole development process from first idea to end of maintenance is governed. Application lifecycle man-agement (or ALM for short) is a version of product lifecycle management concept spe-cifically used for the management of software projects. ALM is typically realized in the form of software suite of tools for governing the requirements, design, progress tracking and testing of software project. Also defect tracking and user feedback can be included under its scope. This thesis aims to apply the application lifecycle management concept to safety-critical software development. The aim is to introduce an ALM solution to Rocla software de