Description

1 Task Details and Instructions 

1.1 Context and Scenario 

You are a Senior Software Architect working for a company in a Manchester business incubator developing new embedded systems for autonomous road vehicles (commonly known as self-driving vehicles). The embedded systems for self-driving cars are used in suspension, steering and braking applications. You are part of a team responsible for ensuring that the software delivers high levels of safety, availability and reliability. You have been asked to prepare a report for the Chief Technology Officer on whether adopting a software fault-tolerance approach would avoid software forming a single point of failure in the company’s embedded systems. 

1.2 Task Instructions 

• Gather information from research publications accessed through the library, online and the module materials provided. 

• Critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of software diversity in embedded systems, such as n-version programming and recovery blocks. 

• Critically assess methods of assessing the reliability and availability of software fault-tolerant systems. 

• Make recommendations on the use of software fault-tolerance in embedded system applications.