Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) : A Proactive Approach to Defect Prevention in Software

Speaker(s)
vid
Experience level
Intermediate
Duration
50 min

Risk detection and management is something that we do almost in every project, but seldom do we think of deducing it to a disciplined and preventive quality assurance tool for our future endeavors, that may fall under the same fault trend. 

Introduced in the 1940s by the U.S. military, FMEA is a methodology designed to identify potential failure modes to assess the risk associated with those failure modes, to rank the issues in terms of importance, and to carry out corrective action to address the most serious failure modes in a design, a manufacturing process, or a product or service. 

FMEA has been adopted by several automobile and healthcare industries to prevent and eliminate failures in their product since its inception with NASA being one of the major benefactors of this technique. This makes the fundamental aspects of FMEA being translated through major institutions till date.

OpenSense Labs started using this comprehensive system to build a robust tool that would perpetually determine the failing processes, products or designs and also churn out the reasons for failure. How it impacts the quality of the software while also increases reusability in QA process.  

In this session, we will equip you with the know-how of:

  • What is FMEA and it’s driving Principals?
  • How has FMEA improved product quality across different industries?
  • How can FMEA facilitate software quality analysis and why is it important today?
  • Aligning your team to a product mindset rather than project mindset

The major takeaways would be:

  1. Basic FMEA analogy within software development ecosystem
  2. Why should I believe it?
  3. Practical results that you can expect out of FMEA process in your software quality assurance?
  4. Re-usability of FMEA process across similar project type
  5. How to get started with FMEA? Starter kits.

Software FMEA process