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VDA Automotive SYS Conference 2015 Report
As previously mentioned, last week I attended the VDA Automotive SYS Conference in Potsdam. The theme of my presentation was MISRA C – Safety v Security and discussed the coverage of MISRA C against ISO/IEC 17691 (the C Secure standard). … Continue reading
Geocacheing in Germany
Background The scene is set: attending a conference in Germany, and you have a couple of hours free in the evening. Do you (a) sit in the bar and drink beer, or (b) go geocaching? A bit of a silly … Continue reading
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VDA Automotive SYS Conference
I am please (and slightly nervous) to announce that I will be speaking at the VDA Automotive SYS 2015 conference, to be held in Postdam in July. I will be taking part in the Workshop "Software coding for safety and security", … Continue reading
Santa Run for the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
On Sunday 14th December, I will be taking part in the annual Santa Fun Run in aid of the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. As all who know me will confirm, I am not built for running… But sometimes, one must escape from the … Continue reading
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-5 Keyword Driven Testing
Following on from the successful publication of ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 Parts 1, 2 and 3 and the progress on Part 4, the attention of attention ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG26 has now turned to Part 5 – Keyword Driven Testing.
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 Faces Objections
As a member of the UK Mirror Panel to WG26, which is responsible for the ISO 29119 standard, I am disappointed to read of the objection to the standard led by the International Society for Software Testing, which has resulted in a … Continue reading
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Is Software just a Black Art?
Background In the August 2014 edition of the IET's E&T Magazine, Tim Fellows wrote an article titled How to avoid getting sucked into the black hole of software development (link). The article seems to blame the bulk of software related … Continue reading
A trip down memory lane
Between Easter 1978 and the summer of 1979, we lived at RAF Locking in Somerset. Since we left, following my father's posting, I have never been back. Yesterday (20th May) I attended the Reliable Software Developer's conference in Bristol, and (as reported … Continue reading
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Could MISRA-C have prevented the Apple iPhone SSL Bug?
The mainstream media has been reporting a vulnerability in the SSL, in Apple's iPhone The Guardian GitHub What Was The Problem? According to a diff of the source code, an extra gotowas inserted in the nest of conditions. if ((err … Continue reading
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BSI relaunches UK C Panel
After a number of years without an "official" UK mirror panel, the British Standards Institute has launched a new panel IST/5/-/24 to act as the UK's contribution to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 – the C language standards body. The previous UK panel IST/5/-/14 … Continue reading