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
Gregory Pope
Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Gregory Pope has more than forty years’ experience developing software in the commercial and government sectors. Greg has held positions from programmer to CEO and now works for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a software quality engineering group leader. Previously, Greg founded and ran a software testing company and patented automated software testing tools. He has held varied positions involved with mission critical testing of military systems and development of software codes for electronic countermeasures, telemetry, and data acquisition systems for flight.