Author Archives: Jamie Ayre

Hi-Lite: a Verification Toolkit for Unit Test & Unit Proof

A presentation by Yannick Moy, Senior Engineer, AdaCore, at a recent talk at IRILL Days 2010. Video courtesy of IRILL (http://www.irill.org)

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First TOPCASED Days 2011 conference

The first conference based around the TOPCASED toolkit project will take place in Toulouse February 2nd-4th, 2011.

TOPCASED (Toolkit in OPen-source for Critical Application and SystEms Development) is a modular, open-source, Eclipse-based software environment providing methods and tools for critical embedded systems development, ranging from system and architecture specifications to software and hardware implementation through equipment [...]

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SPARK Ada in High SIL Active Life Support (Alex Deas – Deep Life Ltd.)

From a talk given at the SPARK User Group 2010 High Assurance Software Symposium, Alex Deas from Deep Life talks about developing software for deep water rebreathers which must meet the rigorous European safety standard SIL3.

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Autocoding – Do we still need software design? (Rod White – MBDA)

From a talk given at the SPARK User Group 2010 High Assurance Software Symposium, Rod White from MBDA talks about Autocoding and raises the question: Do we still need software design?

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Designing and Implementing a Verifiable High Assurance Workstation (Alex Senier – secunet)

From a talk given at the SPARK User Group 2010 High Assurance Software Symposium, Alex Senier from secunet talks about their experiences building High Assurance workstations.

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Couverture end of project event

17:30 CET January 27th, 2011 – AdaCore Paris offices, 46 rue d’Amsterdam, 75009 Paris.

Project Couverture has officially come to an end. It’s objectives were to produce a Free Software coverage analysis toolset together with artifacts that allow the tools to be used by developers of safety-critical and mission-critical projects, including systems that need to be [...]

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DO-178C: the OOT supplement

Below are a couple of presentations from the recent Certification Together conference. Both concern the OOT supplement of the upcoming DO-178C avionics standard.

DO-178C: the OOT supplementView more presentations from AdaCore.

DO-178C OOT supplement: A user's perspectiveView more presentations from AdaCore.

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OpenUP and DO-178B development processes

In a paper first published in 2008, Christophe Bertrand and Christopher P. Fuhrman from the Department of Software and IT Engineering, ÉTS, Montreal, Canada, discuss how OpenUP (”a minimally sufficient software development process – meaning that only fundamental content is included”), could be adopted for use in the context of building high-integrity (DO-178B) software.

Abstract:

“Civil avionics [...]

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Safety-critical software and formal verification

Below are a couple of links to a paper and an article discussing the formal verification of safety-critical applications.

The first one is an article written by Boris Sedacca in the IET magazine “Verifying safety-critical aerospace and automotive applications” looking at how the current and upcoming Avionics and Automotive standards “aim to improve code verification”. [...]

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Integrating Formal Methods into Software for Avionics Certification

In this recent article published in Defense Tech Briefs, Robert Dewar discusses how integrating formal methods into the software design process can bring better assurance than traditional testing methods. Through the Hi-Lite project, he looks at how testing, static analysis, and formal methods combined could “advance the state of the practice in developing modern avionics [...]

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