Software testing for safety critical applications

Author

Wang, Lingfeng ; Tan, Kay Chen

Volume

8

Issue

2

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

47

Abstract

Software quality indicates how well the software product complies with the user requirements. Safety-critical applications in industrial automation such as industrial measurement and instrument software pose unique concerns for software quality due to its demanding requirements on system performance. Effective software testing can ensure the software quality as well as help the developer garner customer kudos for high-quality software. In this article, various issues on industrial measurement and instrument software testing are discussed. (Code inspections and audits are complementary activities to software testing and are very effective. This article addresses only testing; it does not address code inspections and review).

Keywords

production engineering computing; program testing; real-time systems; safety-critical software; software quality; industrial automation; industrial measurement; instrument software testing; real time software; safety critical applications; safety critical software; software quality; Application software; Automation; Computer industry; Inspection; Instruments; Software measurement; Software performance; Software quality; Software safety; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIM.2005.1438843

Filename

1438843