Khaled Almakadmeh
Ghadeer Al Qahmouss
ABSTRACT
Context: system dependability is an explicit indicator that such system satisfies its critical assets; through helping customers in choosing trustworthy software that meets their requirements. This will increase the awareness of customers for increasing their dependability of software delivery without soft-failures that may lead to massive losses in their lives and economical crises. There are few attempts to review and classify the proposed dependability approaches and summaries the dependability major challenges.
Purpose: this paper is aimed to conduct a survey for previous research studies of system dependability of real-time embedded software in a variety of application domains and to suggest some dependability solutions for future research.
Plan: a comprehensive survey with a proposed methodology is used to conduct a review for previous research studies regarding system dependability for real-time embedded software.
Preliminary Results: a survey has been created for identifying and classifying some of the system dependability terms and approaches used by academia. Several papers are retrieved from the literature including conferences and articles to build a comparative study of system dependability approaches and techniques in order to highlight for dependability challenges in different contexts.
Conclusion: the results of this survey is to address different types of challenges and benefits from previous research studies also to emphasize the importance of using dependability strategies (i.e. fault avoidance, fault detection and correction and fault tolerance) while planning for systems dependability.
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