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What's needed to ensure safety and security in UAV software - Story
July 31, 2013
UAVs are not like the remote control stunt plane you unwrapped on your 10th birthday. In their different guises they can be found in civil airspace or flying as integral players in military missions. That makes unmanned systems? safety and security very serious considerations. Accordingly, ISO 14508 and DO-178 could prove helpful in perpetuating safety and security for unmanned systems. Software tools that automate the processes required by these certification standards are easing the burden.
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Code Quality: Dynamic & static analysis combined makes engineers & auditors happy - Blog
March 28, 2013
In the good old days, before writing software became “software engineering,” code development was a black art practiced by weird nerdy kids straight out of college. For them, coding was by no means a structured discipline. If you managed to get them to communicate, they might tell you that they were hacking code together and using ad hoc test data to see whether it did what it was supposed to do when they executed it.
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What use are test tools for applications based on software reuse? - Story
October 10, 2012
The use of test tools is vast across countless applications, but of particular value when used for quality assurance in the customer environment.
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When code is born of old: Architectural obsolescence within the development life cycle - Story
April 11, 2011
Portability is not just relevant to software migration during the lifetime of a product. In complex military projects where the development cycle can easily take up to 10 years, software might have to be ported to new architectures two or three times. Unless specific steps are taken to ensure platform portability, such migration accelerates project overage, extending work schedules right through testing and verification. The ideal would be to anticipate such an occurrence and plan to minimize its impact, but the right software test tools can smooth the way even when porting legacy code written without such foresight.
Avionics
When code is born of old: Architectural obsolescence within the development life cycle - Story
April 11, 2011
Portability is not just relevant to software migration during the lifetime of a product. In complex military projects where the development cycle can easily take up to 10 years, software might have to be ported to new architectures two or three times. Unless specific steps are taken to ensure platform portability, such migration accelerates project overage, extending work schedules right through testing and verification. The ideal would be to anticipate such an occurrence and plan to minimize its impact, but the right software test tools can smooth the way even when porting legacy code written without such foresight.
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Legacy enhancement: Nightmare or dream? - Story
August 14, 2009
It can be a real nightmare when a customer wants a new solution based upon legacy software for which the original developers left no clear indication of design criteria. But finding the proper analysis methodologies and tool suites can help developers get a good night's rest.
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