Software Engineering

6. 
Report findings.
11.2.8 
Identify systems monitoring procedures
If the software product involves control or monitoring of mechanical or other types 
of equipment, then the software FMEA should have identified the situations that 
must be regulated. The systems monitoring, status notification, and corrective 
action functionality must be identified. The systems monitoring and control behav-
iors should be highlighted throughout the behavioral model and functional hierar-
chy so that they may be emphasized during software implementation and testing. 
As the software architecture evolves, changes to systems monitoring and control 
behaviors should be evaluated thoroughly due to the important nature of these 
functions.
The systems states must be identified and the periodicity of software monitor-
ing functions specified. The behaviors associated with the software response to sys-
tems state changes must be incorporated into the functional architecture. Real-time 
or near-real-time monitoring should provide for detection of the health status of 
the systems and establish the software response to a degraded system’s operational 
1 
Analysis Techniques for Systems Reliability—Procedure for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 
(FMEA), International Electrotechnical Commission, Jan. 25, 2006.

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