Abstract
Whereas a software component may be perfectly suited to one application, it may prove to cause severe faults in other applications. The pre-standard IEC/PAS 62814 (Dependability of Software Products Containing Reusable Components – Guidance for Functionality and Tests), which has recently been released, addresses the functionality, testing, and dependability of software components to be reused and products that contain software to be used in more than one application; that is, reused by the same or by another development organization, regardless of whether it belongs to the same or another legal entity than the one that has developed this software. This paper introduces into this pre-standard and give hints how to use it. The author, who chaired its realization that started in 2006, briefly summarizes the difficult process to bring the industrial partners with controversial interests to a consensus.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Belli, F., Linschulte, M.: Event-driven modeling and testing of real-time web services. J. Serv. Orient. Comput. Appl. 4(1), 3–15. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Frakes, W. B., Terry, C.: Software reuse: metrics and models. ACM Comput. Surv. 28(2), 415–435 (1996). http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=234531&type=pdf&CFID=65178775&CFTOKEN=89447410
Frakes, W.B., Kang, K.: Software reuse research: status and future. IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. 31(7), 529–536 (2005). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1492369
Leveson, N.: Medical devices: the Therac-25. In: Appendix A in Safeware: System Safety and Computers, pp. 1–49, Addison-Wesley, Boston (1995). http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=84A18B532CF53C4AEA6F64AA6038BFEF?doi=10.1.1.39.704&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Lions, J.L.: Ariane 5 Flight 501 Failure (1996). http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane5rep.html
Mathur, A.P.: Foundations of software Testing. Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston (2008)
Mohagheghi, P., Ict, S., Conradi, R.: An empirical investigation of software reuse benefits in a large telecom product. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 17(3), 13:1–13:31 (2008). http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1363104&type=pdf&CFID=82907429&CFTOKEN=24134248
Mohammad, M., Alagar, V.: A component-based development process for trustworthy systems. J. Softw. Maint. Evol. Res. Pract. (2010) (Wiley InterScience, Published online), doi:10.1002/smr.472. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smr.472/pdf
Naur, P., Randell, B. (eds.): Software Engineering, Report on a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany (1968). http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF
Orrego, A., Mundy, G.: SRAE: An integrated framework for aiding in the verification and validation of legacy artifacts in NASA flight control systems. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Intertnational Computer Software and Applications Conference. IEEE Computer. Press, New York (2007)
Sommerville, I.: Software Engineering. Addison Wesley Longman, Boston (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Belli, F. (2014). Assuring Dependability of Software Reuse: An Industrial Standard. In: Cordeiro, J., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44920-2_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44920-2_5
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-44919-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-44920-2
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)