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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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Embarquez Agile workshop

Embarquez Agile (Embed Agility) is a one day conference being organized by AeroSpace Valley competitive cluster. The event will take place in Bordeaux, France on March 18, 2010. Cyrille Comar and Matteo Bordin will be giving talks around the Open-DO initiative and the notion of Qualifying Machine.

More details can be found here.

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FM+AM’2010 Workshop

Following the inaugural event last year, the 2nd International Workshop on Formal Methods and Agile Methods is taking place in Pisa, Italy, September 17 2010.

According to the website, “the aim of this workshop is to seek and to discuss novel ideas about combining FM and AM in the domain of software development, with the goal [...]

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