Graphical representation with rich narrative

Developing assurance cases in critical industries requires more than just diagrams – it demands clear, compelling rationale and narrative. With ASCE, you can do both - create your graphical argumentation notations and enrich each element with narrative content underpinned by evidence.

Clarity at a glance

ASCE offers descriptions for notational elements and their relationships, enabling easier assurance case creation.

Not all arguments are weighted equally—ASCE lets you easily assign links’ strength between the assurance case elements, highlighting which ones play the most critical role in your system’s assurance.

Structural checks

Whether you're new to assurance cases or a seasoned expert, ASCE's powerful structural checks can help to enhance your work. ASCE provides a set of rules to automatically check the structure of your GSN or CAE networks, delivering instant feedback in a user-friendly results window. Discover actionable suggestions for improvements and ensure your assurance cases are robust and aligned with the best practices. 

Create meaningful user views

Create smaller, distinct user views tailored to specific stakeholders. This approach promotes focused collaboration among specialist teams and allows you to present the most relevant parts of your case to different stakeholders effectively.

Assign and track tasks

Use the Embedded issues feature to mark elements requiring further content development or additional evidence and assign those tasks to yourself or your colleagues, ensuring complete visibility across the team. Easily track project’s progress by generating quick updates that outline resolved issues and those that remain pending.

Add additional notes

Communicate any additional comments or notes within your assurance case by using dedicated elements in ASCE. Responses to all comments are documented ensuring the traceability for revisions and reviews. Fully addressed comments can be marked as ‘addressed’ and optionally hidden, while remaining securely preserved within the case for future reference.

All your evidence in one place

Incorporate your evidence from diverse sources - documents, databases, spreadsheets, other assurance cases and more, and effortlessly access them through ASCE.

Truly dynamic narrative

Leverage ASCE’s Dynamic Narrative Regions (DNRs) feature to seamlessly incorporate essential content from your external files into your assurance case. DNRs provide a smarter way to integrate relevant data and evidence by pulling specific sections from deep within your external documents and presenting them directly in your case. The true strength of DNRs lies in its dynamic nature – any updates made to the original files can be swiftly checked and reflected within ASCE.

No hidden changes in your case

Stay informed and in control of all updates, whether it’s content changes within evidence files or new document versions replacing the old ones linked to your case. With ASCE’s powerful features, you can conduct a comprehensive check across your assurance case, generate a clear summary of changes, and decide which updates to approve.

Quickly identify the gaps

Use the traffic light feature within ASCE to visually indicate the confidence levels of specific assurance case areas. Instantly see which parts of the case have been successfully developed and where further effort and evidence is needed. Streamline progress tracking, informed decision-making, and efficient resources allocation.

Choose from multiple ways to view your case

Use ASCE’s Birds Eye View to seamlessly navigate your entire safety case, quickly accessing key focus areas.

With ASCE’s Table View feature, review all elements of your assurance case in a structured tabular format, displaying key properties and statuses at a glance. Easily sort, group, search, filter, and export data to enhance analysis and facilitate team discussions.

Compare changes between versions

Gain complete clarity on all content changes made to your assurance case as it develops. Leverage the ASCE Difference tool to compare various case versions and easily identify highlighted updates in elements, links, and narrative.