Related Links
BetterDeal
A subsidiary company of Oakwood Computing Associates
Limited, offering mathematical solutions to everyday problems
such as calculating the most cost-effective
mobile phone tariffs
for personal and business use.
The C Language
The Motor
Industry Software Research Association has now produced an excellent
public domain C standard. It is called:-
MISRA,
(1998) "Guidelines for the use of the C language in vehicle based
software", ISBN 0-9524156-9-0
For the status
of C standardisation check here.
For lots of useful
source material on the C language in general, check here.
Finally, the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission has produced a detailed study entitled
"Review Guidelines on Software Languages for use in Nuclear Power
Plant Safety Systems", NUREG/CR-6463.
Amongst others this covers C and C++.
Software reliability
and failure
Try the wonderful
RISKS forum for all
kinds of useful information with analysis.
For detailed discussion
of incidents involving aircraft, try here.
For failure data
on the lamentable PC, try here.
Other technical reference links
The US National
standards institute NIST
has very strong associations with validation.
This
personal site has lots of relevant information
www.leshatton.org.
If
you have a related site, contact us.
