Qualification of RTEMS SMP (ECSS)

Tue Dec 4 16:59:07 UTC 2018

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:53 AM Amaan Cheval <amaan.cheval at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is great news!
>
> - Is there a way for other interested parties to join the effort
> (volunteers from the community)?
>

I am at hte Flight Software Workshop and the ESA person here says they will
get input from the space community.

>From an RTEMS perspective, some will happen on devel@ but there is a
qualification@ mailing list. As a community, we MUST figure out how to
provide and maintain as much of the technical information as possible
needed for qualification and certification efforts. But we must not crush
an open source project with weight. Ensuring our processes are
well-defined, tests are repeatable, continuous integration testing, etc are
all important. Doing things better is one push.

The other push may ended up with things only applicable to qualification
efforts. Those must be maintained by those interested in qualification. The
formal analysis may be in this bucket.

This is an opportunity to do things better and do ground-breaking work for
an open source project. We all just need to do our bit.

FWIW I am presenting tomorrow at the FSW and have 3 slides on qualification
efforts including this one.

--joel

> - Will all the work also be planned on public channels (devel@, public
> WIP branches, etc.)?
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:49 PM Sebastian Huber <
> sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to announce to the RTEMS community a 24 month project
>> sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA).
>>
>> The main goal of the project is to enable European space missions to use
>> RTEMS as a software product in criticality category C (this is basically
>> category B without independent software verification and validation,
>> ISVV). Criticality category C means:
>>
>>
>> http://ecss.nl/standard/ecss-q-st-80c-rev-1-software-product-assurance-15-february-2017/
>>
>> "Software that if not executed, or if not correctly executed, or whose
>> anomalous behaviour can cause or contribute to a system failure
>> resulting in: Major consequences"
>>
>> In ECSS-Q-ST-40C  major consequences are characterized in Table 6-1 as a
>> major mission degradation without effects to the outside world of the
>> system. A future activity may perform ISVV to enable a use in category B
>> settings.
>>
>> The qualification will be done according to ECSS standards
>> (ECSS-E-ST-40C and ECSS-Q-ST-80C). The standards are available at
>>
>> http://ecss.nl/
>>
>> free of charge after registration.
>>
>> The project consists of four tasks.
>>
>> 1. Qualification toolchain
>>
>> This task aims to produce a tool chain so that qualification related
>> work can be carried out efficiently. For example: document generation,
>> test suite runs (including code coverage), test reporting, test result
>> archiving, code metrics, static code analysis, traceability (e.g.
>> requirements to tests), etc.
>>
>> 2. RTEMS SMP qualification data package
>>
>> This task covers the main RTEMS components (source code, tests,
>> documentation; new: requirements document, ECSS standard tailoring) so
>> that a data package for space mission consumers can be generated.
>>
>> 3. RTEMS SMP formal verification
>>
>> This is a research project. The aim is to apply formal methods for the
>> verification of a subset of the RTEMS SMP algorithms.
>>
>> 4. RTEMS SMP application porting
>>
>> The goal of this task is to port an existing uniprocessor space software
>> from RTEMS 4.8 (RTEMS Improvement by Edisoft) to RTEMS SMP. The
>> algorithms used by the software needs to be parallelized.
>>
>> The project partners are:
>>
>> * Edisoft (prime)
>>
>> * Lero (https://www.lero.ie/) with Lero researchers from Trinity College
>> Dublin and University of Limerick
>>
>> * Jena-Optronik GmbH and embedded brains GmbH
>>
>> The results of this activity should be open source and available to the
>> RTEMS community. The actual planning needs to be discussed at
>> devel at rtems.org in the next couple of weeks. One of the first topics is
>> the definition of a space profile which defines the feature set subject
>> to this project.
>>
>> --
>> Sebastian Huber, embedded brains GmbH
>>
>> Address : Dornierstr. 4, D-82178 Puchheim, Germany
>> Phone   : +49 89 189 47 41-16
>> Fax     : +49 89 189 47 41-09
>> E-Mail  : sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>> PGP     : Public key available on request.
>>
>> Diese Nachricht ist keine geschäftliche Mitteilung im Sinne des EHUG.
>>
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