A number of very interesting articles in February’s SoftwareTech News look at the use of FLOSS by the DoD. Topics below give an insight the DoD’s position and strategy in employing open source software.
Software is a Renewable Military Resource
Military Open Source Community Growing
Evaluating Open Source Software
Open Source Software Is Commercial
Implementing Open Standards in Open Source
Running [...]
From a talk given at the SPARK User Group 2010 High Assurance Software Symposium, Rod Chapman from Altan Praxis talks about the guiding principles behind PSP (Personal Software Process) and TSP (Team Software Process).
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Below are the slides from the recent Couverture project conclusion meeting. Cyrille Comar presented the original needs and goals of the project, the challenges the team came across a long the way, and the main results.
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At the upcoming Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, Germany, there will be a days conference on the use of freely-licensed open source software (FLOSS) to build safety-critical systems. Presentation topics include:
Validation of Linux for Safety-Related Systems
Linux as a real-time Hypervisor for the automotive industry
Efficient Safety Critical Systems Development – Is FLOSS the only answer?
Finding Misuses [...]
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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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 [...]
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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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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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.
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 [...]