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High-Assurance Systems
Fall 01/Introduction
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Phases Defined (3)
¨Acceptance
Qualification
–Where the customer
decides if it meets their needs
–Output of assurance evaluation is generally considered here
–Customers generally do
an initially limited deployment
¨Deployment
–When the software
first sees wide use within an installation
–Flaws identified
at/after this point are very costly to fix