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# Program Faults and Verification
As software becomes more and more integrated in our daily lives, we (#537)
need, more than ever, for the software we write to work reliably in a
wide range of conditions--even, and especially, in unexpected
conditions. This paper, written by Robert Rasmussen from the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in 2008, documents and explains some fundamental
principles about designing fault tolerant systems as learned through
the hard-won experience of designing Guidance, Navigation, and Control
(GN&C) systems for spacecraft. This paper is rich in principles,
examples, and advice, and has a lot to offer to our industry
generally--even for those of us who don't actively work on software for
spaceships!
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[Fault detection ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_detection_and_isolation ), and [program validation ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_verification_and_validation ), and [formal validation ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification ) are highly interrelated topics. Each deal with proving or disproving the correctness of systems as intended, and the classification of incorrect behavior.
## Program Verification
* [Coq: The world’ ](https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pdf )
* :scroll: [Epitaxis: a system for syntactic and semantic software queries ](epitaxis-a-system-for-syntactic-and-semantic-software-queries.pdf )
## Fault Protection
As software becomes more and more integrated in our daily lives, we (#537)
need, more than ever, for the software we write to work reliably in a
wide range of conditions--even, and especially, in unexpected
conditions. This paper, written by Robert Rasmussen from the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in 2008, documents and explains some fundamental
principles about designing fault tolerant systems as learned through
the hard-won experience of designing Guidance, Navigation, and Control
(GN&C) systems for spacecraft. This paper is rich in principles,
examples, and advice, and has a lot to offer to our industry
generally--even for those of us who don't actively work on software for
spaceships!
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* [GN&C Fault Protection Fundamentals ](https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/41696/08-0125.pdf )
> As software becomes more and more integrated in our daily lives, we
> need, more than ever, for the software we write to work reliably in a
> wide range of conditions--even, and especially, in unexpected
> conditions. This paper, written by Robert Rasmussen from the Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory in 2008, documents and explains some fundamental
> principles about designing fault tolerant systems as learned through
> the hard-won experience of designing Guidance, Navigation, and Control
> (GN&C) systems for spacecraft. This paper is rich in principles,
> examples, and advice, and has a lot to offer to our industry
> generally--even for those of us who don't actively work on software for
> spaceships!
