Perhaps you already know this, perhaps you don't. I certainly didn't when I first read about it many years ago in a "non-aerospace" related book: The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge. At the least, such information could be...

Verification has a place in the software scheme of things. That is undeniable. But the effort one needs to put into verification is not emphasised enough. The problem with verification is that if an error goes undetected in one of...

Quiz time!! Which of the following SW Plans are not required to be produced? a) Plan for Software Aspects of Certification (PSAC) b) Software Development Plan (SDP) c) Software Verification Plan (SVP) d) Software Configuration Management Plan (SCMP) e)...

This post is in response to a request by Pradeep. The issue is important enough to deserve a separate post. I will only touch upon the important aspects of verification tool qualification here. For more details you obviously will need...

This information might be trivial for most of you, but I thought it is worth putting them together somewhere. Even if it is just for my reference. But first a small preamble: DO-178B records that “At the time of publication...