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DoD and Open Source Software

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 [...]

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PSP and TSP: Culture and Discipline for High-Assurance Software

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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Slides from the Couverture project conclusion meeting

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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FLOSS for Safety-related Systems

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 [...]

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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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