open-DO » Related Initiatives http://www.open-do.org Toward a cooperative and open framework for the development of certifiable software Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:29:51 +0000 en hourly 1 Certification Together Conference http://www.open-do.org/2010/07/26/certification-together-conference/ http://www.open-do.org/2010/07/26/certification-together-conference/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:49:12 +0000 Jamie Ayre http://www.open-do.org/?p=1439 According to the website, “The Certification Together International Conference for the Aeronautical Industry is the only event in Europe fully dedicated to System, Software and Hardware certification challenges.”

Looking at the program, a large part of it, as you’d expect, is dedicated to the changes in the upcoming DO-178C standard and how it will affect current certification process and practices. Coupled with these are more practical, hand-on user studies provided by primes and vendors alike.

Cyrille Comar will be giving a talk based around “The challenges of Agile certification” and an update on the Object Oriented Technology (OOT) supplement of DO-178C.

The event will be held in Toulouse, France – Oct 26-28.

]]> http://www.open-do.org/2010/07/26/certification-together-conference/feed/ 0 Hi-Lite project officially launched http://www.open-do.org/2010/05/05/hi-lite-launch/ http://www.open-do.org/2010/05/05/hi-lite-launch/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 12:02:31 +0000 Jamie Ayre http://www.open-do.org/?p=1307 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 different toolchains for Ada and C based on GNAT/GCC compilers, the SPARK verification toolset and the Frama-C platform. The integration of these toolchains inside two industrial IDEs offers to the user a common interaction on Ada and C programs. In particular, mixed Ada/C programs can be verified against a common specification.

The project partners are AdaCore, Altran Praxis, Astrium Space Transportation, CEA-LIST, the ProVal team of INRIA and Thales Communications. AdaCore is the project leader. For more information please visit www.open-do.org/projects/hi-lite and to subscribe to the public mailing list please send email to hi-lite-discuss@lists.forge.open-do.org.

We will be reporting on its progress here as it reaches major milestones throughout the evolution of the project.

]]> http://www.open-do.org/2010/05/05/hi-lite-launch/feed/ 0 IEEE effort to standardize requirements capture language http://www.open-do.org/2009/10/22/ieee-effort-to-standardize-requirements-capture-language/ http://www.open-do.org/2009/10/22/ieee-effort-to-standardize-requirements-capture-language/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:24:01 +0000 Jose Ruiz http://www.open-do.org/?p=797 recent announcement, IEEE has approved work to develop a standard for a language to capture software requirements. Unfortunately, I have not found much information about it. They mention that the information will be presented in a tree-like structure, which should fit well with the hierarchical organization of requirements in typical safety-critical development.]]> http://www.open-do.org/2009/10/22/ieee-effort-to-standardize-requirements-capture-language/feed/ 0 Interesting open-source partitioning kernel http://www.open-do.org/2009/06/05/interesting-open-source-partitioning-kernel/ http://www.open-do.org/2009/06/05/interesting-open-source-partitioning-kernel/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:57:22 +0000 Jose Ruiz http://www.open-do.org/?p=481 DASIA 2009 conference las week, and I discovered a really nice open-source initiative targeting the high-integrity real-time community. The Real-Time Systems Group of the University of Valencia has developed an open-source hypervisor (partitioning kernel) called XtratuM, which is not ARINC compliant, but it provides temporal and spatial partitioning. It currently works on x86 and LEON2. I know personally the people behind this project, and I can encourage you to keep an eye on it.]]> http://www.open-do.org/2009/06/05/interesting-open-source-partitioning-kernel/feed/ 0