[chbot] embedded systems software failures

[Peter Harris]

Hi Charles
This is a fascinating topic. I recently attended the Design West conference
on embedded systems and got to as many presentations as I could on this
subject.
Charles if you are building your list for the joy of building the list then
"SPOILER ALERT" if you want the list as a tool then read on.
Jack Ganssle http://www.ganssle.com presented a version of this talk
http://events.reactionstream.com/files/1113/6184/2863/Mars-Ate-My-Spacecraft.pdf

The two things I took away from the conference were a graph of software
bugs against the use of asserts and the mantra "Test like you fly then fly
what you tested".

There are many excellent articles here:
http://www.ganssle.com/spcl_reports.htm
I particularly recommend the one on coding standards and the one on code
inspection.

Best regards
  Peter
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