Author Archives: Jamie Ayre

Certification Together Conference

According to the website, “The Certification Together International Conference for the Aeronautical Industry is the only event in Europe fully dedicated to System, Software and Hardware certification challenges.”

Looking at the program, a large part of it, as you’d expect, is dedicated to the changes in the upcoming DO-178C standard and how it will affect current [...]

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Achieving Embedded Software Safety with Agility

In this recently published article in Embedded Technology, Jose Ruiz looks at how Agile methods can be successfully applied when building safety-critical embedded software. He concludes:

“Production of safety-critical systems is typically expensive and not conducive to changes. Agile techniques can help increase the level of automation in production and certification, increasing adaptability to changing [...]

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Couverture paper presented at ERTS² 2010

At the recent ERTS² 2010 conference held in Toulouse, Thomas Quinot presented a paper entitled “Object and Source Coverage for Critical Appl ications with the Couverture Open Analysis Framework“.

It presents the Couverture approach to object and structural coverage analysis for certified safety-critical applications, in particular in the context of DO-178.

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XReq Project

XReq – Executable Requirements for DO-178B – is the latest project to join the Open-DO initiative. XReq, first contributed by Sogilis, is a tool designed to help testing and verifying a project. It has been specifically adapted for the DO-178B context but can be used by a much wider audience. To help DO-178B projects, it [...]

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Hi-Lite project officially launched

Yesterday saw the official launch of the Hi-Lite project. Financially supported by French national and local government agencies, Hi-Lite aims to increase the use of formal methods in developing high integrity software, particularly to meet the forthcoming DO-178C avionics standard.

Hi-Lite is completely based on libre software. The project is structured in two [...]

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Formal Method for Avionics Software Verification (Hervé Delseny)

The next talk in our series from the recent Open-DO Conference is from Hervé Delseny, an expert in Avionics Software Aspects of Certification at Airbus. In his talk he gives examples of Airbus’ use of Formal Methods to verify avionics software, and summarises the integration of Formal Methods in the upcoming ED-12/DO-178 issue C.

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The Use of Formal Methods on the iFACTS ATC Project (Neil White)

The next talk in our series from the recent Open-DO Conference is from Neil White, Principal Engineer with Altran Praxis. His talk provides an overview of the formal methods used on the iFACTS project. iFACTS is delivering increased Air Traffic Control capability to the UK.

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Agile Methods and Safety-Critical Software (Peter Gardner)

The next talk in our series from the recent Open-DO Conference is from Dr. Peter Gardner. Peter has twenty years experience in languages and software development methodologies and acts as the focal point for UML in Silver Atena. His talk surveys Agile methods and formulates a list of features that occur in these methods, then [...]

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Open-DO Update (Cyrille Comar)

The next talk in our series from the recent Open-DO Conference is from Cyrille Comar, Managing Director of AdaCore EU, who gives an update on the latest happenings with the Open-DO initiative and talks about AdaCore’s new French government funded project, Hi-Lite, which has the goal of promoting the use of formal methods in developing [...]

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Formal Versus Agile: Survival of the Fittest? (Paul Boca)

A big thank you to all those who attended the very successful Open-DO event in Paris on March 11, 2010. And if you missed it, don’t worry. We’ll be posting videos of all the talks over the coming weeks.

The conference was dedicated to exploring the possibilities of combining formality with agility for [...]

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