Article
Sep 1 '10
Published
in Avionics Intelligence by Charlotte Adams
After five years, RTCA and EUROCAE, the U.S. and European avionics standards organizations, are nearing the finish line in updating DO-178B, the bible for developers of safety-critical software. A cast of 1,000-plus people have observed or participated in the process and about 100 people show up at every meeting, according to one member of RTCA Special Committee 205 (SC-205). The industry expects the final package — DO-178C — to be released in the first quarter of 2011 and be mandated six to nine months after ratification.
Article
Apr 7 '10
Published
in Embedded.com by Yannick Moy
The ease with which code is analyzable depends of the language type you use.
Static analysis is becoming mainstream, with mature bug-finding tools for C and Java, including products such as Coverity Prevent, Grammatech CodeSonar, and Fortify SCA. These products limit the level of “noise” (false warnings) inherent to such tools to a minimum. However, by carefully selecting those cases for which they report a problem, these bug-finders hide the fact that they are largely uncertain about the overall correctness of the program.
Article
Feb 16 '10
Published
in Embedded Computing Design by Tucker Taft
Static analysis tools are becoming more integrated into the software development process. Saving data from the compiler, change history, and error information during the process instead of as a post-code step can make static analysis more productive.
Article
Feb 15 '10
Published
in Embedded.com by Jack Ganssle
Jack Ganssle at Embedded.com discusses the Sofcheck and AdaCore CodePeer tool in Executing software contracts; in particular he examines the tool’s ability to create contracts for subprograms.
Article
Feb 4 '09
Published
in Embedded.com by Jack Ganssle
Jack Ganssle at Embedded.com wonders Why aren’t developers more interested in Ada?
Article
Feb 2 '09
Published
in Embedded.com by Jack Ganssle
A follow-up piece by Jack Ganssle from his original article on the adoption of Ada which appears on Embedded.com.
Article
Apr 6 '08
Published
in TechWorld by Naomi Hamilton
Naomi Hamilton at TechWorld chats with S. Tucker Taft, Chairman and CTO of SofCheck. Taft has been heavily involved in the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, and still works with the language today as both a designer and user.
Article
Mar 1 '08
Published
by Daniel Ramirez
Ada95 is a standardized object-oriented programming language that was developed in the late 1970s by the U.S. Department of Defense. Today, engineers like Daniel Ramirez use the highly structured language to increase the safety and reliability of their new robotics applications. (Note: article is now behind a pay wall.)
