Author: Dimitris Gritzalis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0387350977
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Reliability, Quality and Safety of Software-Intensive Systems
Author: Dimitris Gritzalis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0387350977
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0387350977
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Designing Software-Intensive Systems: Methods and Principles
Author: Tiako, Pierre F.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1599047012
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
"This book addresses the complex issues associated with software engineering environment capabilities for designing real-time embedded software systems"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1599047012
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
"This book addresses the complex issues associated with software engineering environment capabilities for designing real-time embedded software systems"--Provided by publisher.
Software Quality Assurance
Author: Ivan Mistrik
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 0128025417
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 0128025417
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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
Computer Science Handbook
Author: Allen B. Tucker
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203494458
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 2742
Book Description
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
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203494458
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 2742
Book Description
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
High-Integrity System Specification and Design
Author: Jonathan P. Bowen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447134311
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447134311
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
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.
Testing Software and Systems
Author: Alexandre Petrenko
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642165737
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2010, held in Natal, Brazil, in November 2010. ICTSS 2010 is the merger of the 22nd IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TESTCOM) and the 10th International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software (FATES). The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited presentations were carefully selected from 60 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of testing of general software and systems such as test automation, integration testing, test case selection, search based testing, combinatorial testing, inductive testing, test architectures for large-scale systems, and end-to-end performance testing.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642165737
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2010, held in Natal, Brazil, in November 2010. ICTSS 2010 is the merger of the 22nd IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TESTCOM) and the 10th International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software (FATES). The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited presentations were carefully selected from 60 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of testing of general software and systems such as test automation, integration testing, test case selection, search based testing, combinatorial testing, inductive testing, test architectures for large-scale systems, and end-to-end performance testing.
Advances in Information Security and Assurance
Author: James (Jong Hyuk) Park
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642026168
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Information Security and Its Applications, ISA 2009, held in Seoul, Korea, in June 2009. The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptographic algorithms, authentication and identity management, authorization and access control, biometrics and computer forensics, cryptographic protocols, data integrity and privacy, key management and recovery, mobile and RFID network security, firewall, IDs, anti-virus, and other security products, internet and web services security, cyber-attack and cyber-terrorism, other security research, together with the articles from the workshops MoWiN 2009, NASSUE 2009, IAWSN 2009, WNGS 2009 & CGMS 2009, SHCI-ISA 2009.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642026168
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Information Security and Its Applications, ISA 2009, held in Seoul, Korea, in June 2009. The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptographic algorithms, authentication and identity management, authorization and access control, biometrics and computer forensics, cryptographic protocols, data integrity and privacy, key management and recovery, mobile and RFID network security, firewall, IDs, anti-virus, and other security products, internet and web services security, cyber-attack and cyber-terrorism, other security research, together with the articles from the workshops MoWiN 2009, NASSUE 2009, IAWSN 2009, WNGS 2009 & CGMS 2009, SHCI-ISA 2009.
Automotive Systems Engineering II
Author: Hermann Winner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319616072
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book is the second volume reflecting the shift in the design paradigm in automobile industry. It presents contributions to the second and third workshop on Automotive Systems Engineering held in March 2013 and Sept. 2014, respectively. It describes major innovations in the field of driver assistance systems and automated vehicles as well as fundamental changes in the architecture of the vehicles.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319616072
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book is the second volume reflecting the shift in the design paradigm in automobile industry. It presents contributions to the second and third workshop on Automotive Systems Engineering held in March 2013 and Sept. 2014, respectively. It describes major innovations in the field of driver assistance systems and automated vehicles as well as fundamental changes in the architecture of the vehicles.
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
Author: Joaquim Filipe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642540929
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2013, held in Angers, France, in July 2013. The 18 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers reflect a growing effort to increase the dissemination of new results among researchers and professionals related to evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. By comparing novel approaches with established traditional practices and by evaluating them against software quality criteria, the ENASE conferences advance knowledge and research in software engineering, identify most hopeful trends, and propose new directions for consideration by researchers and practitioners involved in large-scale software development and integration.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642540929
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2013, held in Angers, France, in July 2013. The 18 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers reflect a growing effort to increase the dissemination of new results among researchers and professionals related to evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. By comparing novel approaches with established traditional practices and by evaluating them against software quality criteria, the ENASE conferences advance knowledge and research in software engineering, identify most hopeful trends, and propose new directions for consideration by researchers and practitioners involved in large-scale software development and integration.
Foundations of Software Testing: For VTU
Author:
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131759080
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131759080
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description