1.2 first forensic audit
all class period is spent completing our first forensic audit 

• intro 

  • • 1. What was the Therac-25 and what happened to the patients who were treated with it?

    • 2. What is a race condition in software? Explain it to a middle schooler using a simple example from everyday life.

    • 3. Create a simple diagram or visual showing how two software processes can interfere with each other and cause a race condition.

    • 4. Connect the idea of a safety-critical machine failing to a movie or TV show I might know — where has this kind of disaster shown up in fiction?

    • 5. What real medical devices today use embedded software, and what happens if that software has a bug?

    • 6. If a company's product kills someone because of a software bug, who usually gets blamed first — the engineer, the company, or the regulators? Why?

• notes 

  • • add these terms to your living glossary on your google site

      • • they are embedded computing terms, but they specifically go with the court case we are analyzing today

• examples

  • • n/a 

• assignments

  • • • 1.2a Therac-25 Forensic Report (use this to complete your forensic report)

        • you will write your actual report in part 2 of the document

          • forensic audit checklist (not required, but HIGHLY recommended to use)

      • fill out developer report on your google site (do this every class period...will grade at end of unit, but will look at time stamps)

      • make sure you have added definitions to living glossary on your google site if applicable