Software Challenges in Achieving Space Safety

Techniques developed for hardware reliability and safety do not work on software-intensive systems; software does not satisfy the assumptions underlying these techniques. The new problems and why the current approaches are not effective for complex, software-intensive systems are first described. Th...

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Main Author: Leveson, Nancy G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: British Interplanetary Society, 2010-10-07T14:49:46Z.
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