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ARCS
2006
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
Safety, Liveness, and Information Flow: Dependability Revisited
Abstract: We present a formal framework to talk and reason about dependable systems. The framework is based on three distinct classes of (system specification) properties we call s...
Zinaida Benenson, Felix C. Freiling, Thorsten Holz...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Sealing OS processes to improve dependability and safety
In most modern operating systems, a process is a -protected abstraction for isolating code and data. This protection, however, is selective. Many common mechanisms—dynamic code ...
Galen C. Hunt, Mark Aiken, Manuel Fähndrich, ...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Requirements Discovery during the Testing of Safety-Critical Software
This paper describes the role of requirements discovery during the testing of a safety-critical software system. Analysis of problem reports generated by the integration and syste...
Robyn R. Lutz, Ines Carmen Mikulski
ICST
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Longer is Better: On the Role of Test Sequence Length in Software Testing
In the presence of an internal state, often it is required a sequence of function calls to test software. In fact, to cover a particular branch of the code, a sequence of previous...
Andrea Arcuri
SAFECOMP
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Establishing a Framework for Dynamic Risk Management in 'Intelligent' Aero-Engine Control
The behaviour of control functions in safety critical software systems is typically bounded to prevent the occurrence of known system level hazards. These bounds are typically deri...
Zeshan Kurd, Tim Kelly, John A. McDermid, Radu Cal...