Several of you have asked what IP 217 refers to. Below is a description of the Issue Paper supplied by Dewi Daniels from Silver Atena and DO-178C committee participant:
A number of presentations on Open-DO, including “Open-DO: a call to action” posted to the Open-DO web site, have mentioned something called IP 217 and several people [...]
Carlo Daffara has sent through this interesting post that looks at the myth that Open Source software isn’t appropriate for building systems that require certification…Thanks Carlo!
The popular idea that open source, as a collaboratively developed system, does not have the intrinsic quality or reliability to be part of life critical system is quite common. As [...]
Following on from the talk given by Jose F. Ruiz at DASIA 2009, a number of Open-DO presentations will be given at upcoming events.
June 4: Safety-Critical Systems Club – the Tools and Culture for Optimum Return on Investment, Mod Abbeywood, UK. Franco Gasperoni will be giving a talk entitled “Open-DO: A Call to Action for DO-178B and [...]
Albatross is the Open Source ATM community according to founders Skysoft-ATM. The vision is to tackle vendor lock-in and offer “easier access to technology to small and medium size airports and centers in emerging markets.”
One of the projects they (currently 39 members) are working on is the Albatross Display which is described as a “open source Air Traffic Controller environment [...]
An interesting article was published in Defense News concerning recent issues encountered when certifying the software that drives the TP400 engine used on the A400M military transport plane:
“The problem came from having to demonstrate to the European Aviation Safety Authority traceability through the development cycles.”
The full article can be read here:
As promised, here’s the first in a series of videos shot at the recent “Lean, Agile Approach to High-Integrity Software”. We start with Cyrille Comar from AdaCore presenting the concepts around the Open-DO initiative. Each week we will post a new talk from this event. Enjoy!
(Viewing tip: click the ‘HQ’ button on the video [...]
The “Lean, Agile Approach to High-Integrity Software” event took place on March 26 at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris. In all, over 80 people joined us for a day dedicated to looking at ways in which Lean and Agile methods can (and are!) being used to develop software that requires certification – a [...]
Here are the initial concepts and ideas behind the Open-DO initiative. Cyrille Comar gave this presentation at the Do-178C committee meeting in Cologne yesterday. It was a good crowd and a great presentation, lots of enthusiasm and excitement after. Thanks Cyrille!
Open-Do – Initial concepts and idea
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Jose Ruiz will be attending the the OpenCert conference being held in York this coming March. His talk “Open-DO: Open Framework for Critical Systems” fits in nicely with the general theme of Open Source Software Certification.