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The Complete Edition - Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems

By : Jim Cooling
Book Image

The Complete Edition - Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems

By: Jim Cooling

Overview of this book

From air traffic control systems to network multimedia systems, real-time systems are everywhere. The correctness of the real-time system depends on the physical instant and the logical results of the computations. This book provides an elaborate introduction to software engineering for real-time systems, including a range of activities and methods required to produce a great real-time system. The book kicks off by describing real-time systems, their applications, and their impact on software design. You will learn the concepts of software and program design, as well as the different types of programming, software errors, and software life cycles, and how a multitasking structure benefits a system design. Moving ahead, you will learn why diagrams and diagramming plays a critical role in the software development process. You will practice documenting code-related work using Unified Modeling Language (UML), and analyze and test source code in both host and target systems to understand why performance is a key design-driver in applications. Next, you will develop a design strategy to overcome critical and fault-tolerant systems, and learn the importance of documentation in system design. By the end of this book, you will have sound knowledge and skills for developing real-time embedded systems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
15
Glossary of terms

3.7 Exercises

  1. Your company provides a range of computer-based business systems. A client requests the provision of one of the more expensive implementations for his application. However, on evaluating their requirements, you realize that a much simpler and cheaper solution would be satisfactory. When you propose to do this, you are told that your business is to make as much money as possible for your employer – give the customer what was asked for in the first place. What are your views on the ethics of this? What would you do?
  2. As a project manager, you are requested to evaluate a software development plan. This gives details of a two-year software design and development project. Within this timeframe, three months are allocated to integration and testing. What comments would you make concerning this; justify them with reference to appropriate statistics?
  3. You have been appointed a manager of an embedded software development group in a company that makes diesel engines...