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Fail-Safe Testing Of Safety-Critical Systems, Ahmed Gario
Fail-Safe Testing Of Safety-Critical Systems, Ahmed Gario
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This dissertation proposes an approach for testing of safety-critical systems. It is based on a behavioral and a fault model. The two models are analyzed for compatibility and necessary changes are identified to make them compatible. Then transformation rules are used to transform the fault model into the same model type as the behavioral model. Integration rules define how to combine them. This approach results in an integrated model which then can be used to generate tests using a variety of testing criteria. The dissertation illustrates this general framework using a CEFSM for the behavioral model and a Fault Tree …
An Empirical Comparison Of Reuse In Embedded And Nonembedded Systems, Julia F. Varnell-Sarjeant
An Empirical Comparison Of Reuse In Embedded And Nonembedded Systems, Julia F. Varnell-Sarjeant
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High-quality software, delivered on time and budget, constitutes a critical part of most products and services in modern society. Our government has invested billions of dollars to develop software assets, often to redevelop the same capability many times. Recognizing the waste involved in redeveloping these assets, in 1992 the Department of Defense issued the Software Reuse Initiative.
The vision of the Software Reuse Initiative was "To drive the DoD software community from its current "re-invent the software" cycle to a process-driven, domain-specific, architecture-centric, library-based way of constructing software.'' Twenty years after issuing this initiative, there is evidence of this vision …