CS 589 HW #5

Answer the following questions. Each answer should be about one paragraph long. Make sure your answers are in plain text and in a single ASCII file. Also, please include your name in the name of your homework file (e.g., "George Edwards - hw5.txt"). Mail your file to gedwards@usc.edu before the start of class (October 12, 2:00 PM).

1) For each of the dichotomies discussed in Section 1 of "Software Analysis: A Roadmap", explain which end of the spectrum of analyses you believe to be more relevant to embedded software, and explain why. For example, for Section 1.1, do you think analysis or description is more important to embedded software development?

2) What features of the approach discussed in "Model-Integrated Development of Embedded Software" are particularly relevant to embedded software development? What features of the approach could be more generally applicable to the development of other types of software, such as desktop software, high-performance scientific applications, server applications, etc.?

3) What are the major differences between event-driven and time-driven software models?