Testing or formal verification: DO-178C alternatives and industrial experience

IEEE Software

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 50-57

  Moy, Yannick ^a   Ledinot, Emmanuel ^b   Delseny, Hervé ^c   Wiels, Virginie ^d   Monate, Benjamin ^a  

^a AdaCore ^*  (France)

^b DASSAULT AVIATION   (France)

^c AIRBUS   (France)

^d ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATAFLOW; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE; SOURCE LEVEL; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

VERIFICATION;

EID: 84897584093     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2013.43     Document Type: Article

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