Safety validation of embedded control software using Z animation

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 228-237

  Atchison, Brenton M ^a   Lindsay, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animation; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Embedded software; Humans; Logic; Software safety; Software systems

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANIMATION; AUTOMATIC TESTING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAFETY TESTING; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; HUMANS; LOGIC; SOFTWARE SAFETY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER CONTROL;

EID: 74549176478     PISSN: 15302059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/HASE.2000.895467     Document Type: Article

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