Embedded software component quality and certification

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 420-427

  Carvalho, Fernando ^a   Meira, Silvio R L ^a   Freitas, Bruno ^b   Eulino, João ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Grupo de Estudos Avanados em Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação   (Brazil)

Author keywords

An embedded software component; Certification process; Component certification; Component quality evaluation; Embedded software component quality

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; BUSINESS SUCCESS; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; HUMAN SAFETY; QUALITY EVALUATION; QUALITY PROPERTIES; TIME TO MARKET;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE;

EID: 74549184146     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2009.90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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