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With software’s increasing role in safety-critical and security sensitive infrastructure it is of paramount importance to educate the next generation of software engineers in the use of high integrity development methods. In this paper we discuss our experience training undergraduate students in the use of SPARK toward the construction of a mission-critical embedded system. In particular the students designed and implemented the control program for a CubeSat nano-satellite that will orbit the Earth as the first step toward the ultimate goal of building a prototype CubeSat that will go to the Moon. Our work shows that inexperienced undergraduates can learn to use SPARK to produce more robust software than might otherwise be the case, even in the environment of a volatile student project.
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Brandon, C., Chapin, P. (2013). A SPARK/Ada CubeSat Control Program. In: Keller, H.B., Plödereder, E., Dencker, P., Klenk, H. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2013. Ada-Europe 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38601-5_4
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