NDLI: A generic process to build reliable distributed software components from early to late stages of software development

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lahami, M. Krichen, M. Idani, A. Jmaiel, M.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: National School of Engineering of Sfax, Sokra road km 4, PB 1173, Sfax, Tunisia (Lahami, M.; Krichen, M.; Idani, A.) \|\| LIG, 681 rue de la Passerelle, BP 72,38402 Saint Martin d'Hres Cedex, France (Jmaiel, M.)
Abstract	In this paper, we propose an incremental software development process that addresses reliability concerns, from early to late stages of software development. Contrary to existing techniques, in our proposal we merge two dependability means: fault prevention and fault forecasting techniques in order to build reliable distributed software systems. The design stage is focused on obtaining coherent specification of each individual component using an incremental refinement technique. After obtaining a consistent specification of each component, we deal with generating its code safely. In addition, we define consistent component assemblies by checking their compatibility at the integration level. The runtime testing stage is based on the fault forecasting technique which allows an emprirical estimation of the overall system reliability. Such process is used to get confidence that the obtained system behaves correctly according to its specification and fulfils all requirements and expectations. As an example, this paper introduces B formal method and Fractal component model to build reliable and trustworthy Fractal based applications.
Starting Page	287
Ending Page	292
File Size	121516
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424470402
e-ISBN	9781424470426
DOI	10.1109/ICCES.2010.5674870
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-11-30
Publisher Place	Egypt
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Distributed component based architecture Fractal Unified modeling language Programming B Formal method Reliability engineering Fractals Software reliability Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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