Article
Aug 4 '13
Published
in Emebedded.com by Stuart Matthews
Stuart Matthews explains how SPARK 2014 uses and extends the features of Ada 2012 for automated verification of programs.
Article
Feb 4 '13
Published
in Electronic Design by Quentin Ochem
The industrialization age of programming by contract is opening a new era in software development. Just as development techniques went from assembly to structured languages and from structured languages to object orientation, contract-based programming is providing one more abstraction to software design.
Article
Dec 3 '10
Published
in Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing
Professors and students at Vermont Technical College are using AdaCore’s GNAT Ada development environment and Altran Praxis’ SPARK tools to implement two NASA-sponsored programs, including a CubeSat.
Article
Nov 10 '10
Published
in Electronic Design by Mike Hennell and William Wong
Static and dynamic code analysis can improve application performance, safety and reliability by identifying problems early in the development cycle if the proper tools and procedures are used from the start. Dr. Mike Hennell, founder of LDRA, spoke with me about the various aspects of these types of tools.
Article
Jun 6 '10
Published
in EE Times by Julien Happich
Altran Praxis announced that its SPARK language has been selected by a new, NASA-funded US lunar mission. SPARK will be used to develop the software behind a CubeSat project being developed by a consortium comprising Vermont Technical College, Norwich University, St. Michael’s College, and the University of Vermont.
Article
Oct 10 '08
Published
in GCN (Government Computing News) by Joab Jackson
An article in GCN (Government Computing News) that looks at an NSA-funded project carried out by the U.K.-based Praxis High Integrity Systems and Spre Inc. NSA commissioned the project, which involved writing code for an access control system, to demonstrate high-assurance software engineering.
Article
Aug 14 '06
Published
in The Register by David Norfolk and Pan Pantziarka
In this article by David Norfolk and Pan Pantziarka, the authors look at the increasing use of Formal Methods and the Correctness by Construction process championed by Altran Praxis.
