This is the paper that Yannick Moy presented at the recent ERTS 2012 conference:
Verification activities mandated for critical software are essential to achieve the required level of confidence expected in life-critical or business-critical software. They are becoming increasingly costly as, over time, they require the development and maintenance of a large body of functional and [...]
This is the paper that Matteo Bordin presented at the recent ERTS 2012 conference:
The widespread use of model driven engineering in the development of software-intensive systems, including high- integrity embedded systems, gave rise to a “Tower of Babel†of modeling languages. System architects may use languages such as OMG SysML and MARTE, SAE AADL or [...]
Ben Brosgol and Greg Gicca look at agility, tool qualification and the new DO-178C standard in this article in Military Embedded Systems.
Abstract:
The DO-178C standard improves upon the previous DO-178B version by better supporting newer concepts in software development processes and methods. The new standard contains a core document and four supplements. The core [...]
Many thanks to the organisers of the ERTS 2012 (Embedded Real-Time Software and Systems) conference for including a session linked to the Open-DO initiative. There will be 4 talks on the morning of Thursday February 2:
Integrating Formal Program Verification with Testing (Cyrille Comar, Johannes Kanig and Yannick Moy)
Compilation of Heterogeneous Models: Motivations and Challenges [...]
In his recent Embedded Computing Design article, Ben Brosgol discusses “Non-intrusive code coverage for safety-critical software” and more specifically how a “tool that derives precise source-level coverage metrics from execution trace data for a non-instrumented program” can really help with DO-178B evidence requirements. Abstract below with a link to the the full article…
Certification standards such [...]
From the Ada Connection 2011 talks, Dewi Daniels from Verocel gives an overview of DO-178C/ED-12C
An excellent interview in Military Embedded Systems this week looking at NASA’s drive towards open source software. Sharon Hess interviews Ray O’Brien, Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology at NASA Ames Research Center. In it, O’Brien discusses NASA’s OSS policy, projects, and the advantages they are seeing from interacting with the OSS community.
From the Ada Connection 2011 talks, Frederic Pinot from Ansaldo STS talks about his experiences developing real-time systems for high-speed rail.