Advances in Computers: Highly Dependable Software

by Marvin Zelkowitz Ph.D., MS, BS.

Overview

Since 1960, Advances in Computers has chronicled the constantly shifting theories and methods of Information Technology which greatly shapes our lives today. Highly Dependable Software is the 58th volume in this Series. The seven chapters describe various approaches towards dependability: software development measurability, transformation oriented programming, Bounded Model Checking, GUI testing, history and lessons from software inspections, impact and problems related to errors in software, the evolution of the various security policies. This book would be an invaluable addition to any university course in computer technology, and an excellent reference tool for industrial practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780120121588
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/08/2003
Series:	Advances in Computers , #58
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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Critical industries demand reliable software. Organizations cannot function effectively with simply 'adequate' programmes. Highly Dependable Software, as its title suggests, focuses on the need for software that fulfils these requirements - to be 'highly dependable'.

Table of Contents

Preface.
Contributors.
Software development productivity, K.D. Maxwell.
Transformation-oriented programming: A development methodology for high assurance software, V.L. Winter, S. Roach and G. Wickstrom.
Bounded model checking, A. Biere, A. Cimatti, E.M. Clarke, O. Strichman and Y. Zhu.
Advances in GUI testing, A.F. Memon.
Software inspections, M. Roper, A. Dunsmore and M. Wood.
Software fault tolerance forestalls crashes: To err is human, to forgive is fault tolerant, L. Bernstein.
Advances in the provisions of system and software security - Thirty years of progress, R.B. Vaughn.

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Critical industries demand reliable software. Organizations cannot function effectively with simply 'adequate' programmes. Highly Dependable Software, as its title suggests, focuses on the need for software that fulfils these requirements - to be 'highly dependable'.