4. Link with IEC 61508 Requirements¶

[IEC-61508:2010] requirements describe two steps for Software Tool Qualification (Part 3 - 7.4.4):

1. Planning of usage

2. Qualification of a software tool

In order to respect these steps, we’ll manage five documents for this tool qualification:

• Ferrocene Evaluation Plan

• Ferrocene Evaluation Report

• Ferrocene Qualification Plan

• Ferrocene Qualification Report

• Ferrocene Safety Manual

The current document is the Ferrocene Evaluation Plan. It provides information on how the tool evaluation is done. The results of this evaluation are presented in the document Ferrocene Evaluation Report to justify the Tool Qualification Level classification.

The Ferrocene Qualification Plan describes how the tool is qualified (Step 2: qualification of a software tool):

• Tool description and architecture.

• Who is responsible for this qualification.

• Development process.

• Validation process.

The Ferrocene Qualification Report describes the result of the tool validation (Step 2: qualification of a software tool):

• Tool identification (version/name).

• Environment.

• Configuration data.

• Qualification results (Test Reports, etc.).

• Usage Constraints or errors identified in the course of this qualification, with mitigations.

The Ferrocene Safety Manual describes the usage, constraints, and limitations of the tool according to this qualification (Step 1: Planning of usage + some result from Step 2):

• List of the potential errors with mitigations or workarounds.

• Description of the tool usage and other information (configuration data, environment, etc.).