Category Archives: Standards

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MACH 2018

I am pleased to announce that I will be Speaking as part of the British Standards Institution led panel session “How robotics and automation are transforming manufacturing systems” at the Manufacturing In Motion (MACH 2018) event at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre. The … Continue reading

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IET SSCS 2018

I knew that my presentation was being videoed for IET.TV – so here it is…

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MISRA C:2012 Technical Corrigendum 1

Since the publication of MISRA C:2012 and its adoption by industry and the wider C community, a number of issues have arisen, both from discussions within the MISRA C Working Group and in response to feedback via the MISRA C … Continue reading

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Publication of ISO/IEC 20246:2017

I am pleased to announce the publication of ISO/IEC 20246:2017 (Software and systems engineering — Work product reviews), which sits alongside the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 family. This Standard establishes a generic framework for Work Product Reviews that can be referenced and used … Continue reading

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KFC Colonel’s Club

Recently there have a been a spate of hack-attacks that, thankfully, have not affected me.  However, I awoke this morning to find one that did… the KFC Colonel's Club… so yet another Big Company has failed in its duty to … Continue reading

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BSI Committee IST/015/-/26 on Software Testing

I am pleased to announce that, following confirmation by the BSI parent committee IST/15 (Software and Systems Engineering), I have succeeded Dr Stuart Reid as Chairman of BSI committee IST/015/-/26 on Software Testing, the UK Mirror Panel to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG26. … Continue reading

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Device Developer Conference – MISRA C Chairman’s Presentation

As a personal first, my presentation is now vailable on YouTube! Or, if you prefer, you can just to read the slides!

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MISRA clarifies safe and secure uses of the C language

The MISRA C Working Group is pleased to announce the launch of four new documents, at the forthcoming Device Developer Conference: Guidelines on achieving MISRA Compliance: MISRA Compliance 2016 MISRA-C:2004 Permits   Enhancements for Security Coding MISRA C:2012 Addendum 2 … Continue reading

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UK Device Developer Conference 2016

I am please to announce that I will be speaking at the UK Device Developers' Conference 2016, to be held in Cambridge in April. I will be taking part in the Workshop "Getting to grips with the Latest Developments around … Continue reading

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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

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