Software has found its way into almost every part of our lives. Increased automation in the cars we drive can lead to failures which could result in physical injury, unacceptable risk, or cyber security vulnerabilities. In order to prevent accidents, identification of hazards, risks, and security vulnerabilities is required during development. The problem is the traditional hazard analysis techniques—failure effects and modes analysis, fault tree analysis, and root cause analysis—were developed for simplistic hardware controllers and are based on single point failures. Software fails...Learn More
Vicki Pope
Lawrence Livermore National Laborator
Vicki Pope is an American Society of Quality certified software quality engineer and the deputy software quality assurance manager for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Vicki analyzes legal and contractual SQA requirements and translates them into meaningful and usable information for software development and user teams at the Lab. This includes consulting and mentoring individual development/user teams, creating and teaching software-related courses, developing templates and job aids, and managing the safety software inventory for the LLNL.