The dangers of failure masking in fault-tolerant software: aspects of a recent in-flight upset event

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 532 CP, 2007, Pages 60-65

  Johnson, C W ^a   Holloway, C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Fault tolerance; Maintenance; Software

Indexed keywords

AIR DATA; AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS; AUSTRALIA; BOEING COMPANIES; CERTIFICATION PROCESS; COMPONENT SOFTWARE; FAULT-TOLERANT SOFTWARE; FLIGHT COMPUTERS; INERTIAL REFERENCE UNITS; MALAYSIA; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SOFTWARE; TRANSPORT SAFETY;

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 67649831378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20070442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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