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The Application of Flow Analysis to
DC3 and Coverage Compliance
Abstract
This research will focus on two issues: (1) definition of, and
methodologies for compliance with, data and control coupling
requirements, and (2) development of new, and improvement of
existing, flow analysis techniques.
DO-178B defines component, control coupling, and data coupling,
and requires that structural coverage analysis confirm the data coupling
and control coupling between code components (DC3 requirement) for
software levels AC.
Principles of DC3, however, are not well defined
or well understood.
We will seek to develop a set
of consistent, well-defined guidelines that can be applied across all future
airborne software projects to satisfy DC3.
With these guidelines, we will work to develop cost-effective methodologies to
measure compliance with DC3.
Structural coverage techniques require various types of flow analysis
of a program. Studies have shown that existing flow analysis techniques
are effective in revealing program faults, but existing techniques are
slow and inefficient. We will investigate ways to provide efficient and
effective flow analysis. Our focus will be on analysis techniques for
identifying requirements for testing, generating test data to satisfy these
requirements, and measuring compliance with these requirements.
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