Innovative Technologies for Dependable OTS-Based Critical Systems
Subtitle: Challenges and Achievements of the CRITICAL STEP Project
By: edited by Domenico Cotroneo
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer Milan; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Milano
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9788847027725
Subjects: Software engineering; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Computer science; Performance and Reliability; Operating systems (Computers)
Description: The demand for large-scale dependable, systems, such as Air Traffic Management, industrial plants and space systems, is attracting efforts of many word-leading European companies and SMEs in the area, and is expected to increase in the near future.  The adoption of Off-The-Shelf (OTS) items plays a key role in such a scenario. OTS items allow mastering complexity and reducing costs and time-to-market; however, achieving these goals by ensuring dependability requirements at the same time is challenging. CRITICAL STEP project establishes a strategic collaboration between academic and industrial partners, and proposes a framework to support the development of dependable, OTS-based, critical systems. The book introduces methods and tools adopted by the critical systems industry, and surveys key achievements of the CRITICAL STEP project along four directions: fault injection tools, V&amp;V of critical systems, runtime monitoring and evaluation techniques, and security assessment.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to basic concepts; title: V&V in Safety Critical Systems; title: Fault Injection; title: Security; title: Monitoring and Diagnosing.