Press Release
Aug 23 '10
With each new model year, cars are becoming more dependent on microprocessors and complex software, challenging the auto industry to ensure that these systems are secure, safe, and reliable. According to AdaCore, this challenge is not being met: security and safety issues are not being properly considered at the start of the automotive system design cycle, but are instead being addressed as an afterthought.
Article
Aug 17 '10
Published
in Design Talk by John Greenland
Zero Defect Software Development (ZDSD) is a results-oriented process that emphasizes the analysis, testing and reporting of the causality of defects. This process, which has evolved from the commitment to providing “five-nines” (99.999%) reliability for mission-critical applications, supplants the traditional approach of reacting to undesirable effects and treating symptoms while attempting to manage verification processes using “trend analyses” or simply tracking the occurrences of defects.
Press Release
Jun 30 '10
Tucker Taft presents at Ada Europe 2010: An Introduction to ParaSail: Parallel Specification and Implementation Language
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.
Press Release
May 23 '10
LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has integrated the LDRA tool suite with Wind River Workbench and VxWorks to provide a single work environment for safety- and security-critical certification. Thanks to a Wind River-specific Eclipse plug-in, developers have the flexibility of directly accessing LDRA tool suite capabilities from within Workbench or controlling Workbench and the VxWorks simulator from the LDRA tool suite.
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
Apr 6 '10
Published
in EE Times by Mark Pitchford
Unit Test has been around almost as long as software development itself. It just makes sense to take each application building block, build it in isolation, and execute it with test data to make sure that it does just what it should do without any confusing input from the remainder of the application. In the past, the sting came from not being able to simply lift a software unit from its development environment, compile and run it let alone supply it with test data.
