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Integrating Fault-Tolerant Techniques into the Design of Critical Systems

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Software designs equipped with specification of dependability techniques can help engineers to develop critical systems. In this work, we start to envision how a software engineer can assess that a given dependability technique is adequate for a given software design, i.e., if the technique, when applied, will cause the system to meet a dependability requirement (e.g., an availability degree). So, the idea here presented is how to integrate already developed fault-tolerant techniques in software designs for their analysis. On the one hand, we will assume software behavioural designs as a set of UML state-charts properly annotated with profiles to take into account its performance, dependability and security characteristics, i.e., those properties that may hamper a critical system. On the other hand, we will propose UML models for well-known fault-tolerant techniques. Then, the challenge is how to combine both (the software design and the FT techniques) to assist the software engineer. We will propose to accomplish it through a formal model, in terms of Petri nets, that offers results early in the life-cycle.

This work has been supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under project DISC (Grant Agreement n.INFSO-ICT-224498) and by the project DPI2006-15390 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.

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Rodríguez, R.J., Merseguer, J. (2010). Integrating Fault-Tolerant Techniques into the Design of Critical Systems. In: Giese, H. (eds) Architecting Critical Systems. ISARCS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13556-9_3

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