Tracks illustrate the life-cycle of a PLC based application, from the requirements phase to the deployment and maintenance periods.
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(1) Specifications
- Best practices
- Trace requirements
- Documents and tools: Design, Implementation, User manual
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(2) Project development
- Standards and/or Frameworks.
- Language choice, coding conventions
- Novel paradigms: e.g. Automatic code generation, object orientation, external engineering tools, domain specific languages
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(3) Testing and verification
- Methodologies and tests (FAT, SAT)
- Simulation, virtual commissioning
- static analysis
- Verification: formal methods
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(4) Application management
- Versioning
- Deployment
- Online changes
- Management of changes
- Reverse Engineering
