High-Quality Software Models of the Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope
Jane M.C. Oh · IGI Global eBooks · 2009
This chapter examines the experience of using model-based design in the context of development of critical software. The software is being developed to control a science instrument that it to fly as part of NASA’s James Web Space Telescope. The chapter discusses the context and nature of this software development effort, and why they motivated the choice of a model-based development approach. Illustrations are provided of the elements of model-based design that are proving to be beneficial. The chapter also considers how software assurance practices are being adapted to work with this approach.