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* consolidate program verificaiton and program fault detection listings. * faults and validation gets header info
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Program Faults and Verification
Fault detection, and program validation, and formal validation are highly interrelated topics. Each deal with proving or disproving the correctness of systems as intended, and the classification of incorrect behavior.
Program Verification
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Fault Protection
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!