@inproceedings{55, author = {Jane Cleland-Huang and Michael Vierhauser}, title = {Discovering, Analyzing, and Managing Safety Stories in Agile Projects}, abstract = {Traditionally, safety-critical projects have been de- veloped using the waterfall process. However, this makes it costly and challenging to incrementally introduce new features and to certify the modified product for use. As a result, there has been increasing interest in adopting agile development paradigms within the safety-critical domain. This in turn intro- duces numerous challenges. In this paper we address the specific problems of discovering, analyzing, specifying, and managing safety requirements within the agile Scrum process. We propose SafetyScrum, a methodology that augments the Scrum lifecycle with incrementally applied safety-related activities and introduces the notion of “safety debt” for incrementally tracking the current safety status of a project. We demonstrate the viability of SafetyScrum for managing safety stories in an agile development environment by applying it to a project in which our existing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system is enhanced to support a River- Rescue scenario.}, year = {2018}, journal = {26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference}, month = {08}, url = {https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10076568}, }