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Software Safety Engineer

Part 6 in depth: process, architecture, isolation and verification of safety-related software.

  • 4 weeks
  • 21 items
  • 12.8 hours
  • 0 free with an account

Career Path gives you an assessment and a roadmap based on your experience and goals. This track is the fixed schedule for one role.

The schedule

Week by week.

Guides, practice and checks in the order they build on each other. Items marked Free account open on the free plan.

  1. Week 1Functional safety foundations → Software safety process3h 48m
    • QuizCalibration: foundations12 questions20mPro
    • ReadCoding guidelines & language subsets50mExpert
    • ReadProcess: Software Requirements Specification25mPro
    • QuizQuiz: software process10 questions18mPro
    • ReadSoftware architecture (part 1 of 2)First half: architectural design, notations, error handling strategies.1h 55mPro
  2. Week 2Architecture & unit design4h
    • ReadUnit design & verification (part 2 of 2)Second half: unit design, implementation and verification methods.1h 55mPro
    • ReadSafety design patterns55mPro
    • ReadProcess: Software Architectural Design25mPro
    • ReadProcess: Software Unit Design and Implementation25mPro
    • QuizQuiz: software architecture12 questions20mPro
  3. Week 3Isolation & interfaces → Verification of safety software3h 48m
    • ReadFreedom from interference20mExpert
    • ReadHardware-software interface45mExpert
    • ReadSafety-related timing40mExpert
    • QuizQuiz: isolation & interfaces10 questions18mPro
    • ReadVerification & validation overview15mExpert
    • ReadFault injection testing55mExpert
    • ReadSoftware critical path analysis10mExpert
    • ReadReuse and qualification of pre-existing software25mExpert
  4. Week 4Verification of safety software1h 10m
    • ReadProcess: Qualification of Software Components25mPro
    • ReadProcess: Software Integration and Testing25mPro
    • QuizQuiz: software verification12 questions20mPro

Templates

89 work-product templates come with this path

Ready-to-adapt documents matched to the modules above. Reference material, not extra hours on your schedule.

  • Functional Safety Concept
  • HAZOP Worksheet
  • Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Report
  • Item Definition
  • Motorcycle HARA Verification Report
  • Motorcycle Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
  • Motorcycle Item Definition
  • Verification Report of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
  • Coding Guideline Compliance and Deviation Report
  • Dependent Failures Analysis Report (Software)
  • Embedded Software Release Documentation
  • HSI Specification (Refined - Software)
  • +77 more

Further reading

Also on this track

Related guides outside the core schedule, for when you want to go wider.

  • Functional Safety with AUTOSAR · Expert

Start this path

Week one starts with a free account.

The free plan opens the first items on every track: one full concept guide, 3 templates, 1 process, the Markov simulator and 5 practice exams a month. Pro and Expert unlock the rest of the schedule.