Quick questions on Voelter et al. reading
Usual disclaimer: Being able to answer these questions does not prove that
you remember the reading perfectly! But at least, not being able to answer
them does suggest you should reread it.
There's no automated checking of these: just see if you could answer each
question in a sentence or two. If not, see the page indicated (page numbers
are given in terms of the PDF document).
- What is a language workbench? (p2)
- What is a safety critical system? (background, look up if unsure!)
- Why do standards for safety critical systems cause a difficulty for
using language workbenches to help with the development of safety critical
systems? (p4)
- What is the overall approach proposed in this paper? (p5ff; summarised
on p8)
- Give some examples of the risks that must be guarded against, and
explain how this approach tackles them. (p6-7)
- Say something about the case study. What domain does it come from, why
is this domain safety critical, what task is to be undertaken...? (p9ff)
- Say something about how the case study went, e.g., roughly how much
effort from the domain partner was required, and (how) do the authors claim
this is reasonable? (p13; see also the discussion section, p17)
- What were the lessons learned from the case study? (p14)
- Given an example of another domain where the authors claim their
experience is relevant. (p15)
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