9 best requirements management tools for functional safety (IEC 61508)

The best requirements management tools for functional safety all protect one thing: the chain of evidence behind a safety case. It runs from a hazard, through the safety requirement that mitigates it, into the design that implements it, and out to the test that proves the design works. Break one link and an assessor stops trusting the whole chain.

Building that chain once is manageable. Keeping it intact through months of design changes, then proving it to a certification body…