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Mike,
Thanks for the reply. I guess I wasn't very clear in my initial message. I
do know DO-178B very well. I misspoke by saying it was a commercial avionics
standard in that it is used by commercial avionics, but is a government
standard.
What I was wondering though, is if there is any military standard that would
imply military avionics projects have to conform to DO-178B, and/or such a
requirement?
Mike Brenner wrote:
> Ada Marketing wrote:
> > Some military programs are now requiring the conformance to commercial
> > standards, such as the FAA's DO-178B.
> > Is there a defined government mandate that encourages or requires this?
>
> The FAA is the agency that usually mandates DO-178B. That standard is
> quite close to saying something like it requires both CMM Level 4 and an
> INSPECE (independent software performance evaluation and coding
> examination as used on nuclear weapons programs).
>
> DO-178B compliance is tailorable on a per-contract basis and includes
> such stuff as:
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> process model of the software maintenance
> strict configuration management
> metrics on hanging pointers, memory leakages, overflows
> quality assurance to analyze the trends in metrics
> both product and process audits
> testing standards
> independent proof that no extraneous outputs are generated
> testing that trace every input and output
> automated testing
> automated integration testing
> built-in-tests
> battle shorts
> tools and methods of analyzing the impact of change
> enterprise logging
> data integrity
> carrying out the testing when the HW, SW, OS, or net changes
> software peer reviews
>
> It is true that DO-178B was written by a "commercial" aviation
> organization, but I think of it more as a government standard.
>
> ADVICE: First, define the requirements for how well the software has to
> work, get everyone's agreement on those requirements, and then tailor
> the DO-178B requirements on your contract to those requirements.
>
> Mike Brenner
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