Reliability Quality And Safety Of Software Intensive Systems

Author : Dimitris Gritzalis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0387350977
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reliability, Quality and Safety of Software-Intensive Systems written by Dimitris Gritzalis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is, indeed, widely acceptable today that nowhere is it more important to focus on the improvement of software quality than in the case of systems with requirements in the areas of safety and reliability - especially for distributed, real-time and embedded systems. Thus, much research work is under progress in these fields, since software process improvement impinges directly on achieved levels of quality, and many application experiments aim to show quantitative results demonstrating the efficacy of particular approaches. Requirements for safety and reliability - like other so-called non-functional requirements for computer-based systems - are often stated in imprecise and ambiguous terms, or not at all. Specifications focus on functional and technical aspects, with issues like safety covered only implicitly, or not addressed directly because they are felt to be obvious; unfortunately what is obvious to an end user or system user is progressively less so to others, to the extend that a software developer may not even be aware that safety is an issue. Therefore, there is a growing evidence for encouraging greater understanding of safety and reliability requirements issues, right across the spectrum from end user to software developer; not just in traditional safety-critical areas (e.g. nuclear, aerospace) but also acknowledging the need for such things as heart pacemakers and other medical and robotic systems to be highly dependable.

Author : Michael A. Friedman
Publisher : William Andrew
ISBN 13 : 1437728235
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reliability of Software Intensive Systems written by Michael A. Friedman and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliability of Software Intensive Systems

Author : Ivan Mistrik
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128025417
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Quality Assurance written by Ivan Mistrik and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software Quality Assurance in Large Scale and Complex Software-intensive Systems presents novel and high-quality research related approaches that relate the quality of software architecture to system requirements, system architecture and enterprise-architecture, or software testing. Modern software has become complex and adaptable due to the emergence of globalization and new software technologies, devices and networks. These changes challenge both traditional software quality assurance techniques and software engineers to ensure software quality when building today (and tomorrow’s) adaptive, context-sensitive, and highly diverse applications. This edited volume presents state of the art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices and guidelines for software quality assurance and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice. Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to: quality attributes of system/software architectures; aligning enterprise, system, and software architecture from the point of view of total quality; design decisions and their influence on the quality of system/software architecture; methods and processes for evaluating architecture quality; quality assessment of legacy systems and third party applications; lessons learned and empirical validation of theories and frameworks on architectural quality; empirical validation and testing for assessing architecture quality. Focused on quality assurance at all levels of software design and development Covers domain-specific software quality assurance issues e.g. for cloud, mobile, security, context-sensitive, mash-up and autonomic systems Explains likely trade-offs from design decisions in the context of complex software system engineering and quality assurance Includes practical case studies of software quality assurance for complex, adaptive and context-critical systems

Author : Asim Ali Ahmed Abdulkhaleq
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3736984928
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A System-Theoretic Safety Engineering Approach for Software-Intensive Systems written by Asim Ali Ahmed Abdulkhaleq and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software safety is a crucial aspect during the development of modern safety-critical systems. However, safety is a system level property, and therefore, must be considered at the system-level to ensure the whole system’s safety. In the software development process, formal verification and functional testing are complementary approaches which are used to verify the functional correctness of software; however, even perfectly reliable software could lead to an accident. The correctness of software cannot ensure the safe operation of safety-critical software systems. Therefore, developing safety-critical software requires a more systematic software and safety engineering process that enables the software and safety engineers to recognize the potential software risks. For this purpose, this dissertation introduces a comprehensive safety engineering approach based on STPA for Software-Intensive Systems, called STPA SwISs, which provides seamless STPA safety analysis and software safety verification activities to allow the software and safety engineers to work together during the software development for safety-critical systems and help them to recognize the associated software risks at the system level.

Author : Roger Shaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 144710921X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safety and Reliability of Software Based Systems written by Roger Shaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety and Reliability of Software Based Systems contains papers, presented at the twelfth annual workshop organised by the Centre for Software Reliability. Contributions come from different industries in many countries, and provide discussion and cross-fertilisation of ideas relevant to systems whose safety and/or reliability are of paramount concern. This book discusses safety cases and their varying roles in different industries; using measurement to improve reliability and safety of software-based systems; latest developments in managing, developing and assessing software intensive systems where reliability and/or safety are important considerations; and practical experiences of others in industry.

Author : Phuong Y. Tran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reliability of Software Intensive Systems written by Phuong Y. Tran and published by . This book was released on with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliability of Software Intensive Systems.

Author : Debra S. Herrmann
Publisher : Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Safety and Reliability written by Debra S. Herrmann and published by Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of software has changed from simply generating financial or mechanical data to monitoring and controlling equipment that directly affects human life and safety. As a result, a more thorough understanding and familiarity with the specialized techniques used to achieve and assess the safety and reliability of software is needed in academia, industry, and government. This original text introduces the concepts, techniques, and approaches used to achieve and assess software safety and reliability. Debra Herrmann presents a cross-section of current safety and reliability standards that cross multiple industrial sectors while focusing on the additional required activities to achieve software safety and reliability. In organizing this text, the she has three objectives. The first is to raise the reader's awareness on the importance of software safety and reliability and on its role in mission critical systems by presenting many illustrative, ever day examples. The second objective is to provide practical information about the current methods used to achieve and assess software safety and reliability. The final objective is to improve the understanding and practice of software safety and reliability by consolidating the latest research so that it can be compared and analyzed for the future. The book is written for engineers, scientists, managers, regulators, and policy makers involved in the design, development, acquisition, and certification of safety-critical systems.

Author : Tiako, Pierre F.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599047012
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Software-Intensive Systems: Methods and Principles written by Tiako, Pierre F. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book addresses the complex issues associated with software engineering environment capabilities for designing real-time embedded software systems"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Allen B. Tucker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203494458
Total Pages : 2742 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Science Handbook written by Allen B. Tucker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 2742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of reference today's computer scientists, software engineers, and IT professionals need. With a broadened scope, more emphasis on applied computing, and more than 70 chap

Author : Jonathan P. Bowen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447134311
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-Integrity System Specification and Design written by Jonathan P. Bowen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Errata, detected in Taylor's Logarithms. London: 4to, 1792. [sic] 14.18.3 6 Kk Co-sine of 3398 3298 - Nautical Almanac (1832) In the list of ERRATA detected in Taylor's Logarithms, for cos. 4° 18'3", read cos. 14° 18'2". - Nautical Almanac (1833) ERRATUM ofthe ERRATUM ofthe ERRATA of TAYLOR'S Logarithms. For cos. 4° 18'3", read cos. 14° 18' 3". - Nautical Almanac (1836) In the 1820s, an Englishman named Charles Babbage designed and partly built a calculating machine originally intended for use in deriving and printing logarithmic and other tables used in the shipping industry. At that time, such tables were often inaccurate, copied carelessly, and had been instrumental in causing a number of maritime disasters. Babbage's machine, called a 'Difference Engine' because it performed its cal culations using the principle of partial differences, was intended to substantially reduce the number of errors made by humans calculating the tables. Babbage had also designed (but never built) a forerunner of the modern printer, which would also reduce the number of errors admitted during the transcription of the results. Nowadays, a system implemented to perform the function of Babbage's engine would be classed as safety-critical. That is, the failure of the system to produce correct results could result in the loss of human life, mass destruction of property (in the form of ships and cargo) as well as financial losses and loss of competitive advantage for the shipping firm.