Evaluation of safety-critical software

  • Authors:
  • David L. Parnas;A. John van Schouwen;Shu Po Kwan

  • Affiliations:
  • Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada;Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada;Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1990

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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.