Christopher Smith is VP of marketing for Green Hills Software.
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June 2004[Point of View] Fail-Safe Factors
Military and avionics systems continue to define the upper limit of the term software reliability. The consequences of the failure of a safety-critical system onboard a civil or military aircraft are immeasurably more serious than a glitch in a consumer appliance or internet service delivery. Embedded automotive systems now perform critical vehicle control functions and, therefore, have failure modes that are potentially fatal to the user. The term 'total reliability' sets software for...