Putting preemptive Time Petri Nets to work in a V-Model SW life cycle

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 826-844

  Carnevali, Laura ^a   Ridi, Lorenzo ^a   Vicario, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

automated code generation; automated model transformation; coverage analysis.; Execution Time estimation; model driven development; preemptive Time Petri Nets; Real time systems; real time testing; safety critical SW components; SW life cycle; symbolic state space analysis; test case selection and execution; V Model

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CODE GENERATION; AUTOMATED MODEL TRANSFORMATION; COVERAGE ANALYSIS; EXECUTION TIME; MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; PREEMPTIVE TIME PETRI NETS; REAL-TIME TESTING; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SYMBOLIC STATE SPACE; TEST CASE SELECTION; V-MODEL;

AUTOMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); LIFE CYCLE; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; PETRI NETS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAFETY TESTING; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 83555163833     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.4     Document Type: Article

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