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Abstract
Software for airborne application is highly safety critical
as any failures may result in loss of human life. Government
agencies like FAA and JAA in the US and Europe respectively,
enforce stringent software development practices to
ensure the safety of life. RTCA DO-178B provides the
guidelines for all the phases of the software development
life cycle for airborne applications and equipment certifica-tion.
The aviation community as a whole and the FAA endorse
these guidelines.
The safety criticality of airborne software poses
a lot of challenges for its V&V because the airborne
system as a whole should not fail and result in damage
or threat to human life. This paper aims at explaining
these in more setail from a practitioner’s perspective.
The first few sections define the activities involved
in the verification of safety critical software and
describe the processes recommended by DO178B. In last
couple of sections, a small case study is presented.
It is concluded with a brief description of Wipro Technologies’
focus in this area.
Author
Sreekumar Panicker
To know more about Wipro in avionics, go to www.wipro.com/avionics
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