Effective Software FMEA Training
Our methods are proven to work in an Agile environment.
The Right Way to Do Software FMEA
Traditional FMEA approaches often fail with modern software development. That’s why Mission Ready Software developed a unique, effective approach to software Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) that integrates seamlessly with Agile development. Our software FMEA training methodology focuses on the most common root causes of failure, delivering a superior return on investment.
Why Our Software FMEA Training Approach Is Different
Many popular methods are ineffective and make faulty assumptions about how software fails. We avoid these common pitfalls:
🚫 Line-by-Line Code Analysis: Software failures are rarely caused by a single line of code. This approach is costly and inefficient, with the majority of failures originating in the design phase, long before code is written. We save this detailed analysis for specific, known defects.
🚫 Hardware-Centric “Black Box” Analysis: Software failures are functional and complex, not simply component failures. Treating software as a black box overlooks critical failure modes.
🚫 Analyzing Every Requirement: Focusing on individual requirements is inefficient. Failures are often the result of how requirements interact, not a single faulty one.
The Mission Ready Software Advantage
No one has more experience performing effective software FMEAs on mission- and safety-critical systems than we do. Our proven method finds the most overlooked failure modes in the least amount of time and effort.
PROVEN EFFECTIVENESS – We have spent 35 years testing our approach on real software intensive systems to reduce analysis time while increasing effectiveness. We have demonstrated on dozens of real programs that you can generate an effective FMEA in 2 weeks or less with a multi-functional team.
Software FMEA Training Module 1 - Example of an effective software FMEA training module
An end to end example-
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An end to end example of a few failure modes applied to a real example
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Illustrates that the FMEA identified critical failure modes before the code is even written
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Software FMEA Training Module 2 - The Most Common Software Defects (CDEs)
These need to be considered in the software FMEA-
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The Common Defect Enumerations that apply to the entire software system that are often overlooked
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How to identify which ones apply
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Apply the generic root cause to your system
Software FMEA trainining Module 3 - Tagging the CDEs to the effects and hazards
Tagging the CDE to the effects and hazards-
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How to tailor the DFMEA
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How to assess likelihood, severity and tag the failure modes to hazards and failures
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How to track the failure modes to closure
Software FMEA Training Module 4 - How to affect design and test cases
Feed the edge cases into MBSE and automated testing-
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Develop robust design to control or mitigate the root cause
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Develop robust test strategy for fault injection of most common edge cases
Software test engineers
With your knowledge of software bugs you are a key contributor to the software FMEA. You understand the effects of seemingly minor issues. Modules 2 and 4 will help you develop good test procedures for fault injection. Modules 1 and 3 will help you and the rest of the team connect the dots between defects and mission and safety hazards.
Software engineers
Other methods cause you to be late developing your software. This one doesn’t. You will find oodles of potential design issues and understand how those issues can wreak havoc in the field. Module 4 shows how to use CDE to make your design better and reduce technical debt down the road.
Software management
This is the fastest way to complete software FMEAs and not be behind schedule in a rapid agile environment.
Safety engineers
The software FMEA is a great way to start of a software safety hazards analysis. In fact, if you join forces with the other team members you can do one software FMEA that covers both safety and availability failures.
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TERMS & CONDITIONS
As per the terms and conditions page of this website, software training classes are non-refundable.