This tutorial provides you a step-by-step guide on how to create and manage your STPA safety analysis project in XSTAMPP tool support, edit the STPA project data, export it in different formats, save and delete. www.xstampp.de

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Creating an STPA Project in
XSTAMPP
Asim
Abdulkhaleq

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Create a new
Project
Create a new STPA project
• To create a new STPA project, go to the File menu -> Create new
project Or click on the new button in the Tool bar
• Then choose “STPA project” and click on “Next” button

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Create a new
STPA project
Create a new STPA project
• Edit the name of your project and select the location where
XSTAMPP will save it.
• Select the type of your STPA project haz is compatible with the old
version of A-STPA. hazx is compatible for the current version of
XSTAMPP.
Click on finish button to create a new project

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Create a new
STPA project
Create a new STPA project
• After editing the information and clicking on the “finish” button, a new
project will appear in the project explorer with the three steps of STPA
Click here to expand the three
steps of the STPA project
Each STPA project has three
Steps:
Step 0: Editing fundamentals
Step1: Unsafe control Actions.
Step2: Causal Analysis

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Rename and
Delete a
projectRename and Delete a project.
• You can rename your project by right-clicking on the name of
your project in the project explorer and select rename project.
• You can also delete your project by right-clicking on the name of
your project in the project explorer and choose delete

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Editing
Fundamentals
of STPA
project
Editing Fundamentals of STPA Project
• You can edit the Fundamentals of your STPA project by a double
click on the name of the fundamentals view on the project
explorer under the Establish fundamentals sub-tree.
• You can edit the fundamentals e.g. system description with
different languages
• You can change the font and color of the text
System Description View

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Editing
Accidents List
of STPA
project
Editing Accidents/Hazards-List
• You can edit the accidents of your STPA project by a double click on
the Accidents view under the Establish fundamentals sub-tree.
Edit new Accident
Delete an Accident
Delete All Accidents
Reorder the Accidents
Edit here a long description of
the accident

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Linking of
Accidents &
Hazards
Linking of Accidents and Hazards
• You can link between the accident and hazards by double click on
the Linking of Accidents and Hazards view.
1. choose an accident
2. Select a hazard
3. You can add a hazard or All hazard
4. You can link hazards <> accidents or accidents <> hazards

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Editing
Fundamentals
of STPA
project
Editing Fundamentals of STPA Project
• You can change the font and color of the text of the system
description from the font toolbar in the top of the XSTAMPP
workbench.
• To change the font and color of the text, you have to select the
text and then click on a font button e.g. (the font size or font
name, etc.) on the font tool bar.
• The text and its font and color setting will be exported in the pdf
as well.
Font and color tool bar

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Saving Your
STPA project
Saving Your STPA project
• To save your project, click on the save button on the tool bar
• Or choose File menu and click on save
• You can also save your project with a different name by selecting
save as from the File menu.
• You can also save all projects which you currently work on by
clicking on the “Save All” button
Save and Save All buttons

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Exporting
Your STPA
Project
Exporting Your STPA Project
• You can export the data of your STPA project into different formats
e.g. PDFs, Images and CSV Sheets individually by clicking on the
Export wizard button.
• Or you can export all data of your STPA project in one step by
clicking on the Export All button.
Export Wizard button
Export All button

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Exporting
Your STPA
Project
Exporting Your STPA Project Individually
• You can export each kind of data of your project individually in
different formats by a right-click on each view of your project and
selecting Export
Select an exporting format in which
you want to export the data:
Sheets OR images or PDF
Then click on Next button to set the configuration

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Exporting
Your STPA
Project
Exporting Your STPA Data as an CVS Sheet
• You can export the data of your project as CVS sheet by a right-
clicking on each view of your projects and selecting Export
• Then select the category STPA DATA Sheets and select your
STPA data (e.g. accidents, or hazards) and click on the Next
Button.
Choose the project name which you want to export its data
Choose one type of separators of CVS sheets
Set the destination path to export the data in.

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Exporting
Your STPA
Project
Exporting ALL Your STPA Data
• You can export all data of your project by clicking on the button
RUN in the main tool bar.
• All data will be exported and the output folder will be automatically
opened after finishing the export process.
Type the name of your company
Change the background
and foreground color of the title
in the PDF
Check box if you want to export the control structure
diagram with color
Change the orientations of PDF pages :
Portrait OR Landscape
Set the logo image

15. Thank you!
e-mail
phone +49 (0) 711 685-
fax +49 (0) 711 685-
Universität Stuttgart
Asim Abdulkhaleq, Ph.D Candidate
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Institute of Software Technology, Software Engineering Group
asim.abdulkhaleq@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
The slides will be also available at the website www.xstampp.de