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Safety is one of the key issues for railway applications. Railway safety is concerned with the protection of life and property through regulation, management and technology development of all forms of rail transportation. With modern technology, developers are increasingly turning to electronic / s...

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What is RTCA/DO-178B/C? The international avionics standard for safety-critical software, RTCA/DO-178B/C Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification Requirements, imposes very strict Dynamic Coverage Analysis requirements. The LDRA tool suite provides a comprehensive s...

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Background The RTCA DO-278 / EUROCAE ED-109 "Guidelines for Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) Systems Software Integrity Assurance" is a complementary standard to the airborne DO-178B standard. RTCA DO-278 / EUROCAE ED-109 provides guidelines for the assur...

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What is MISRA-C:2004? In 1998 The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) published the document "Guidelines For The Use Of The C Language In Vehicle Based Software". This document was produced to promote the use of "Safe C" in the automotive industry for systems classified as MISRA...

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What is MISRA-C:1998? In 1998 The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) published the document "Guidelines For The Use Of The C Language In Vehicle Based Software". This document was produced to promote the use of "Safe C" in the automotive industry for systems classified as MISRA...

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The HIS working group Software Test released a common subset of the rules from the 1998 version of the MISRA Guidelines that would be applicable for HIS and published these on the HIS website http://www.automotive-his.de. This document specifies the additional rules which will be applicable to HIS ...

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What is Def Stan 00-55? It is a requirement that all safety-critical software supplied to the MOD must comply with the MOD standard Def Stan 00-55. The LDRA tool suite provides a powerful set of Static and Dynamic Analysis facilities which greatly assist in the process of ensuring that software app...

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As provider of the LDRA tool suite, the JSF software test tool of choice, LDRA has worked closely with prime contractor Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (LMCO) during the critical System Design and Development (SDD) phase of the project. Most recently, this technology partnership has seen LDR...

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What is High Integrity C++? The High-Integrity C++ Coding Standard: © The Programming Research Group manual has been designed for use by organisations that aim to produce high quality C++ software. LDRA is able to assist software developers and testers to check for violations against the standard...

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Background to IPA/SEC C The IPA/SEC C language guide to coding practices has been formulated by the Software Engineering Centre of the Japanese Information-Technology Promotion Agency. The coding practices are designed to assist in the production of consistently high quality source code, regardless...

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MISRA (Motor Industry Safety Reliability Association) is a collaboration between automotive manufacturers, component suppliers and engineering consultancies which seeks to promote best practice and commonality in the development of safety-related automotive electronic and other embedded systems thro...

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In response to the increased use of electronic systems within the industrial automation and particularly in recognition of their application to safety critical functions, the IEC 61508 standard has been created in order to comply with needs specific to the application sector of electrical / electron...

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The extensive use of electronic devices in medical industry and as these electronic products has become more and more dependent on embedded software. The reliability and the associated risk of the embedded software's used within the device have become important.

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CERT C conformance with the LDRA tool suite.

In response to the increased use of electronic systems within the automotive industry and particularly in recognition of their application to safety critical functions, the ISO 26262 standard has been created in order to comply with needs specific to the application sector of electrical / electronic...

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Overview Test Manager maintains your unit test baseline and a repository of all the associated artefacts generated by the LDRA tool suite. Additionally, Test Manager automatically detects changes to your source file(s) and performs a validation of associated regression test cases. Features Auto S...

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Overview Test Verification can be used by the Unit Test component to provide coverage metrics for test cases that execute at various levels, including function/method, module/class and component/system levels. Test Verification provides test planning documents and colour-coded graphs to help you ac...

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Overview The LDRA tool suite automatically determines the complexity and density of your source code. LDRA goes beyond common complexity metrics to determine “essential complexity”, or the section of your code which requires refactoring. Code density metrics are another unique feature of Qualit...

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Overview A vitally important aspect of software development is reflected by the edict: “the software should work as expected.” LDRA’s Design Review widens the scope of the static analysis provided by Code Review and Quality Review to include an analysis of the as-built design of the source co...

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  LDRA automatically applies a comprehensive set of programming standards to a single source file or a complete system. Customer-defined as well as industry standard coding rules are documented and applied to source code with the relevant violations and warnings identified. The ability to hyperlin...

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What is TBreq? Requirement Testing and Verification TBreq, through its integration with the LDRA tool suite which includes LDRA Testbed® and TBrun® (unit testing component), is a unique solution that can help your team overcome the challenges of allocating requirements to team members, mapping r...

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Introduction The current political and economic environment has dictated that security related issues are at the forefront of decision making for systems development managers in industries as varied as transportation, defense, financial, and energy. Software developed for these markets often requ...

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As software and software requirements in space systems become more complex, software safety plays a critical part in overall mission safety. In fact, according to a Aerospace Corporation study, half of all observed spacecraft mission anomalies were due to software failures. Therefore in the design ...

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Risk is a fairly well-known term in the medical device industry; it is defined and measured by the combination of the probability of the occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm to the patient, operator, or others situated with the device. Therefore, the higher the probability of harm occurr...

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Achieve IEC 60880 certification with the LDRA tool suite® The nuclear industry has to deal with some of the most potentially dangerous processes in the world. The primary goal of the industry is to produce safe, low-cost, reliable and environmentally friendly energy and reduce operating and...

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Like any mass transit facility, railways need to be confident in their safety record and error control systems. LDRA's clients within this business sector include many of the worlds major transit facilitators in the rail, public transport and related areas. With its many years of experience at t...

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Defense Systems The LDRA tool suite is the premier choice for building quality into defense systems software, from the simplest system to mission and safety critical software. Many current and next generation military systems have achieved their software quality objectives with the aid of the LDRA ...

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Security-Critical Software Development Process The current political and economic environment has dictated that organisations engaged in the security industry are at the forefront of decision making for systems development managers in industries as varied as transportation, defense, financial, and ...

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Software and Automotive safety The LDRA tool suite is the premier choice for building quality into the software used in automobiles; for MISRA code standards enforcement and full software lifecycle quality management. Many automotive systems have achieved their software quality objectives with the ...

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Avionics and aircraft safety The LDRA tool suite is the premier choice for building quality into safety critical civil and military avionics software. Most current and next generation aircraft include multiple systems that have achieved their software quality objectives with the aid of the LDRA too...

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In recent years the telecommunications sector has been characterised by rapid growth and uptake of new technology coupled with intense levels of competition between companies servicing the industry. Companies seek to gain a competitive advantage and increase market share. This has placed a greater ...

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