While traditional FMEA focuses on physical hardware, software techniques adapt the methodology to functional logic and code behavior:

: Uses visual system models (like Simulink or functional block diagrams) to simulate faults and automatically analyze their effects.

: Applied specifically during the coding phase to identify defects in implementation and calculate a Risk Priority Number (RPN) for each.

: Uses specific "guide words" (e.g., No, More, Less, Part of) to prompt consistent identification of software-specific failure modes, often used in automotive ISO-26262 development.