New challenges in certification for aircraft software

  • Authors:
  • John Rushby

  • Affiliations:
  • SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • EMSOFT '11 Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Embedded software
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We outline the current approach to certification of aircraft software, and the role of DO-178B. We consider evidence for its effectiveness and discuss possible explanations for this. We then describe how changes in aircraft systems and in the air traffic system pose new challenges for certification, chiefly by increasing the extent of interaction and integration.