LDRA and Konatus Partner with Embraer to Accelerate Launch of New E2 Jet Aircraft Family

Wirral, U.K. – 4 October 2016 – LDRA, the leader in standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, and Konatus, LDRA’s engineering partner in Brazil, today unveiled the details of the flight system control safety testing methodology that contributed to the launch of Embraer’s next-generation E2 jet aircraft months ahead of schedule.

Experts in aviation control system safety requirements and certification methodologies, the Konatus engineering team deployed LDRA’s comprehensive safety verification tool suite to optimise testing, mitigate certification risks and dramatically reduce Embraer’s safety verification schedule for the E2 aircraft maiden flight in May 2016. The E2 family of aircraft represents a major upgrade to Embraer’s commercial aviation jet series first introduced more than a decade ago.

LDRA and Konatus began working with Embraer in early 2013 to establish a safety standards and compliance methodology for the E2 aircraft family using the LDRA tool suite for software requirements, team task management, flight control system safety assessment, verification, and validation. The E2 is Embraer’s first civilian aircraft project that implements “Fly-By-Wire” software fully developed internally and tested with the LDRA tool suite for certification for DO-178C — the primary standard for commercial avionics software development.

Results and technical details of the LDRA and Konatus involvement with Embraer’s E2 project include:

• 93% reduction of test case execution time — from hours to minutes
• Tens of thousands of test cases imported
• Generated source code and test case from SCADE Suite (for automated regression testing on target hardware
• Highly automated and optimised target integration for scalability and performance
• Compatibility with integrated development environments (IDEs) including Green Hills Multi
• Deployment of tools and automation for verification of auto-generated code and hand-generated code
• Qualification packages included a customised coding standard based on MISRA, structural coverage, and unit/low-level test

Video of the first E2 flight can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-3m__yRBkg.

About LDRA

For more than forty years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for software that automates code analysis and software testing for safety-, mission-, security-, and business-critical markets. Working with clients to achieve early error identification and full compliance with industry standards, LDRA traces requirements through static and dynamic analysis to unit testing and verification for a wide variety of hardware and software platforms. Boasting a worldwide presence, LDRA is headquartered in the United Kingdom with subsidiaries in the United States and India coupled with an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit www.ldra.com.

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