What Software Quality Characteristics Most Concern Safety-Critical Domains?

Software quality encompasses many characteristics. Within limited resources, how to select the most important characteristics for quality assessment remains an important question. This paper designed a survey to prioritize the goals and software quality characteristics in safety-critical domains. The data were collected from 34 practitioners from 18 organizations in the Chinese safety-critical industries. The results provide guidance on better allocating resources to software quality assessment in safety-critical domains.