A New Method for the Verification of Fault Tolerant Software

A. Tai, M. Hecht, H. Hecht, "A New Method for the Verification of Fault Tolerant Software", Proc. EASCON 87, Washington, DC, October, 1987

This paper presents a new approach for verification of fault tolerant software in aerospace applications. The approach, called the "Enhanced Condition Table", integrates the merits of functional and structural testing in a single framework. The goal is to generate a reasonably sized set of test cases that will reveal operationally significant defects in the software. The method starts with the generation of a conventional condition table based on analysis of the specification. It then proceeds through a definition of possible failure modes by means of fault trees, and finally, the definition of sequences of values for testing of loops.

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