Integrated diagnostics for software

Introduces the idea of diagnostics and integrated diagnostics for the diagnosis of software errors. He examines the differences between hardware diagnostics and software diagnostics. He defines what is meant by the terms integrated and diagnostics to make clear the distinctions between the many ways these terms are often used together. He also defines what is meant by software diagnostics and integrated software diagnostics, and why diagnostics might be important for future embedded systems. This is done to promote a consistent usage of these terms throughout the software development community. The author concludes with some ideas about how software diagnostics and integrated software diagnostics can be accomplished to help support the software life cycle update process