Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-Tolerant Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Butler, Michael (Editor), Jones, Cliff B. (Editor), Romanovsky, Alexander (Editor), Troubitsyna, Elena (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4157
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computer programming.; Software engineering.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Operating systems (Computers).; Computers.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Computer Communication Networks.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Operating Systems.

Many software systems have reached a level of complication, mainly because of their size, heterogeneity and distribution, which results in faults appearing that cannot be traced back easily to the code. Some of these "faults" could also be unexpected program behavior that appears as a resu...