Developing Safety-Critical Software: A Practical Guide for Aviation Software and DO-178C Compliance 1st Edition

This is a much easier read than the raw specs, and provides insights into how a real DER uses DO-178C during a certification project. The text is very friendly and easy to read with excellent advice.I'd recommend this to anyone working on critical software of any kind, especially if you are preparing for certification. It's not just for aeronautical software, it has much distilled wisdom for anyone writing software that simply must work. From soup to nuts, Rierson walks you through a rigorous Software Development Lifecycle, including Requirements (system- and component-level), Design, Coding, SCM, SQA, how to be conservative with OO programming, and little used techniques such as formal methods.Some advice: if your idiot boss tells you the book isn't necessary and to just read the standards, get a new job. More advice: don't loan it out to anyone, or you may not get it back.

I'm fairly new to DO-178 in general, but this book took me from a novice to an intermediate knowledge level. Leanna, as I found out, is a very well respected and well known authority in the avionics safety world. FAA site still has many of the paper and her thesis on their site. I'm very happy to have learned from her book. One really negative thing I must say is more toward the publisher than to the contents or author. The book print quality is absolutely horrible! I used stickies to mark my pages, and when I took the stickies off, the text for the most part has also pealed away with the stickies! Talk about one time use books. CRC, please do better print quality, I used to respect your books.

The green book is one of the best books for engineers. I recommend it

This is a 'must have' book for any one trying to understand 178b requirements. An excellent reference for beginers to 178b/c, it will save months of reader's time and provide short cut to 178b understanding.There is something for every one, often drills down to low level details, very useful up-to-date references and index.First book to systematically handle 178b/c subject matter and its requirements, strongly recommended.

In the world of aviation software, a knowledge of DO-178C is becoming more critical. I found myself purchasing this book because of a project that I am on where I am part of a team developing requirements for an avionics system that will eventually go to the RTCA for standards (MOPS) development. While I'm not taking part in the design of the system at the implementation level, I still wanted to become knowledgeable about the platforms and systems on which this avionics system will eventually run (even though requirements are supposed to be "implementation free", they still need to have be implementable).I thought that the first half of the book contained a useful refresher, though much of it is common to systems engineering and software engineering in general. For me, the real strength of the book was in Parts IV and V where the author goes through the more Aviation-specific topics. I found these later sections very enlightening. In particular, I found chapter 20 to be very up-to-date and accurate - the author's material seemed to conform very closely to what I see on the websites of Avionics RTOS vendors.Overall, I would recommend this to anyone working in the realm of aviation software or avionics systems.

Leanna Rierson's book is an excellent single source reference for guidance on RTCA/DO-178B, RTCA/DO-178C and its supplements RTCA/DO-330 through - 333. It includes anecdotes from years of practice in aviation certification with the FAA and as a consulting DER. This book should be required reading by every software developer who is involved in aviation software development and certification. Then it should be kept nearby as a ready reference.

I am not involved in Avionics software development, but I do work on mission critical systems. This book is a compendium of almost every software validation and verification technique one can employ, and the processes used to ensure their proper use.I highly recommend the book to anyone working software development and project management, for it describes the almost all of the methods, plans, and processes, and procedures available for software quality improvement and quality engineering.

The book is accurate, consistent, and complete. Leanna is one of the most important specialists in DO-178C and airborne software. As usual, this book is another evidence of her experience as FAA DER and consultant. She presents to the readers some good considerations and shares all her experience. Definetly this book is a real guidance to DO-178C and associated supplements.

Les ouvrages qui portent sur la DO-178C ne sont pas nombreux. Celui-ci est incontestablement une référence. L'auteur - qui a participé à l'élaboration de la DO-178C, maîtrise de toute évidence parfaitement son sujet. Plus de 550 pages qui abordent tous les aspects de la certification : des plans jusqu'aux domaines connexes comme la qualification des outils (DO-330), les méthodes formelles, objets, ...Surtout, l'ouvrage fourmille de conseils très concrets, qui permettent d'avoir une bonne idée de ce qu'il faut faire, ou ne pas faire.Tous les informaticiens qui touchent au domaine du logiciel avionique devraient posséder ce livre, tant il est complet et précis.

Very well written. You can tell the author has a lot of experience in DO-178B/C process. I wish I had this book 7 years ago when starting development software for the aerospace industry. It is a good book to keep it as a reference. A must read for serious developers trying to understand the certification process.

I give it a 2 star because, I cannot read it on Kindle paperwhite (e-ink devices). Very disappointed !I havent yet read the contents, so cannot comment on that.Publisher- can you please make this available on Kindle e-ink devices?

This book is a real masterpiece. For anyone who plans to write safety critical software and get it certified, it is a must-read. It covers all aspects of this topic: planning, requirements, design, coding, verification, configuration management, QA and a number of special topics like tools and RTOS.One might think on more than 560 pages there are quite a few redundancies in the text, but this is not the case. There is not a single page that could be removed. Unlike other books on technical matters this book is readable and easily understandable too.Also there are these little details I like with this book: every chapter has an introduction, a list of acronyms, the explicative text, a list of (very concrete) recommendations and the usual references and recommended readings. A book like this one can only be written by a professional in her field and Leanna Rierson definitely is one.

The book is a well written, clear and concise guide to the development and verification of software within the aeronautical domain. Much of what the book covers can be of great use to those practitioners in other domains that require the development of safety-related software.