Real-time: the “Lost World” of software debugging and testing

  • Authors:
  • Robert L. Glass

  • Affiliations:
  • Boeing Aerospace Comp., Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

Real-time debug and test is still a “lost world” compared to the “civilization” developed in other areas of software, says Robert L. Glass. From a survey of current practice across several projects and companies, he defines a state of the art for this problem area and suggests improvements which will ease the practitioner's task.