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Introduction of RAVONSICS project

 
ZENG Hai1, YANG Ming2,and YOSHIKAWA Hidekazu3
 
1. Engineering Center, State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company, No. 7,Cangwu Road, Shanghai, 200233, China (zenghai@snpas.com.cn)
2. College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, No. 145, Nantong Street, Nangang District, Harbin, 150001, China(yangming@hrbeu.edu.cn)
3. College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, No. 145, Nantong Street, Nangang District, Harbin, 150001, China (yosikawa@kib.biglobe.ne.jp)
 
Abstract: This paper introduces the international cooperative research project called RAVONSICS (Reliability and Verification and Validation of Nuclear Safety I&C Software) which is being carried on by 7 Chinese partners including universities, research institutes, utilities, vendors, and safety regulatory body. The objective of RAVONSICS is to bring forwards the methodological development in China for the software reliability evaluation and the software verification technique. The paper gives brief summary of the background, research topics, and the present status of RAVONSICS project. RAVONSICS works cooperatively with its European sister project HARMONICS, where the both projects will share the common target to improve the software reliability evaluation and testing methodologies and techniques.
Keyword: software reliability; verification and validation; digital I&C; safety-critical system

 

 
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