From scripts to specifications: The evolution of a flight software testing effort

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 129-138

  Groce, Alex ^a   Havelund, Klaus ^b   Smith, Margaret ^c  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

development practices; logs; Python; runtime verification; space flight software; temporal logic; test infrastructure; testing

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PERIODS; CRITICAL PROJECTS; DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; FLIGHT MISSION; FLIGHT SOFTWARE; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; KEY PROBLEMS; LOG ANALYSIS; LOG FILE; LOGS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; ON-THE-FLY; POST-RUN ANALYSIS; PYTHON; REAL TIME ANALYSIS; RUN-TIME VERIFICATION; TESTING EFFORT;

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE TESTING; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECIFICATIONS; TEMPORAL LOGIC; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77954690759     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1810295.1810314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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