WHAT DOES 'SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR REAL TIME SYSTEMS' MEAN? Position statement

摘要

Real time systems are implemented primarily as programmable systems. The processing power required to drive the real time tasks is provided by processors or programmable controllers, and the role of a developer is to write programs for these devices, using a method for program analysis, design and implementation. There are two approaches to software development currently on the market: Structured and object-oriented, and there are methods dedicated to the development of real time systems within each of these approaches. This is exemplified by books such as a bit old Structured Development for Real-Time Systems, by Ward and Mellor (1985), and Strategies for Real-Time System Specification, by Hatley and Pirbhai (1987), or much newer one Real-Time UML: Developing efficient objects for embedded systems, by Douglass (1998).