Jeff Tian's Applied Research in Embedded Systems
Usage-based Statistical Testing for Reliability Assurance
Many of the usage-based statistical testing ideas can also be applied to
embedded system,
where the surrounding hardware/software super-system constitute the
"user" of the software under testing,
and the complex interactions between the embedded software and its
surroundings need to be adequately modeled and tested.
To do this, we are working on expanding our statistical testing
strategy to include also the following components:
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User type analysis and classification for the fundamentally different
human users and other sub-systems as users.
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Adapted model construction and usage.
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Reliability optimization for the whole system,
not just the software component, or any other component standing alone.
This is similar to the topic of reliability optimization for
component-based software engineering (CBSE) related to our
OO research topics.
Safety Analysis and Assurance
Much of this work is conducted in connection to system engineering
and software safety,
under the support of THECB with collaboration from Lockheed-Martin.
Prepared by Jeff Tian
(tian@engr.smu.edu).
Last update: July 7, 2003.
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