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Evaluation of safety-critical software

Journal article

Evaluation of safety-critical software

Abstract

Methods and approaches for testing the reliability and trustworthiness of software remain among the most controversial issues facing this age of high technology. The authors present some of the crucial questions faced by software programmers and eventual users.

Authors

Parnas DL; van Schouwen AJ; Kwan SP

Journal

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 636–648

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

January 6, 1990

DOI

10.1145/78973.78974

ISSN

0001-0782

Associated Experts

David Parnas

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Engineering

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Fields of Research (FoR)

46 Information and computing sciences 4612 Software Engineering

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