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Topic: List of tools
 P Johnson 
 Member 
 Posted: Mar 12th 2020 
 List of tools

Should there be a list of assurance tools on this site? A Google for "Safety assurance tools" turns up a few examples but no comprehensive list. "GSN tools" turns up this list from 2011: http://www.goalstructuringnotation.info/archives/41

I must confess to a personal interest here: I want to get the Diametric Safety Case Manager (https://www.diametricsoftware.com) on the list. But given the paucity of tool support we ought to help practitioners find tools as a general service.

 P Williams 
 Member 
 Posted: Mar 12th 2020 

We have considered tool support as a potential topic for future activity by the ACWG. There are issues with simply listing tools, or with making tool recommendations, but we can probably do something useful in identifying good tool aspects and pitfals.

We may even be able to facilitate a 'tripadviser' style community review of tools, but there are many issues with moderatation of such a review list... all issues to be resolved in the WG

 J SPRIGGS 
 Administrator 
 Posted: Aug 2nd 2021 

Can we agree that a GSN Tool is something that facilitates development, presentation, and maintenance of an (assurance) argument using the Goal Structuring Notation?  I have been shown a number of so-called "GSN Tools" that turned out to be little more than a repository for evidence items, and could not show me a clear argument; I was not assured.

 S Diemert 
 Registered 
 Posted: Aug 2nd 2021 

 Edited by: P Williams
 Member 
 on: Aug 3rd 2021 

Posting per Phil's suggetion to grow the list of AC tools:

Socrates - Assurance Case Editor is a web-based assurance case development and maintenance platform developed by Critical Systems Labs Inc. Socrates offers a collaborative environment for creating Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) and Eliminative Argumentation (EA) style assurance cases. Additionally, the tool provides artifact (evidence) management, issue tracking, and (coming soon) metrics tracking, and (coming soon) real-time syntatic checking.   

 P Williams 
 Member 
 Posted: Aug 3rd 2021 

@J Spriggs - this seems a sensible suggestion, but we don't have access to evaluate the tools and rely on the information supplied by the tool provider or a registered user of this site. THis makes it difficult to enforce, but where we are aware of such limitations we can add a note to that effect on the entry. I suspect its better to have such a entry with note than to leave it silent in case someone thinks they've discovered something new.

@S Diemert - thanks - I have added to the gsn tools page 

 J Wolf 
 Registered 
 Posted: Dec 12th 2022 

May I suggest adding my small tool that can generate graphical representations from textual input, including some checks for well-formedness and validity: https://github.com/jonasthewolf/gsn2x

Feedback is very much appreciated.

 P Williams 
 Member 
 Posted: Jan 23rd 2023 

@J Wolf - I added the tool to the list after receiving your posting - only just rememberd to reply to the posting.

 S Joba 
 Registered 
 Posted: Mar 20th 2023 

Hi,

Would you please consider adding our tool "Astah System Safety" to your Goal Structuring Notation Tools list?

Astah System Safety: https://astah.net/products/astah-system-safety/
 

Thank you!

 J Wolf 
 Registered 
 Posted: Mar 20th 

I recently changed the license of my gsn2x https://github.com/jonasthewolf/gsn2x from CC-BY-4.0 to MIT.

Would you mind updating the tool page?

And in turn check again, if the security message still appears?

Thank you.

 

 

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