DevOps for Airborne Software: Exploring Modern Approaches

This Springer Brief provides tools and techniques for using DevOps in airborne software engineering, evaluated against the challenges of the aviation industry. It introduces development practice BDD, CI & CD, Rust & Nix programming language, and maps them to the DevOps Cycle. It describes the experiences gathered while implementing a demonstrator and presents open points and missing pieces. The book targets three reader groups: development managers, investigators, and lecturers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 56 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This Springer Brief presents a comprehensive selection of tools and techniques that either enable or enhance the utilization of DevOps for airborne software engineering. Thorough evaluation against the distinct challenges of the aviation industry, including safety and airworthiness, is conducted using a demonstrator to gather initial experience. The book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the main topics of the work, while Chapter 2 delves deeper into the necessary tools, techniques, software, and standards required to implement the proposed ideas. In particular, the development practice of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), the relationship between DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and the introduction of both the Rust and Nix programming languages are explored. Chapter 3 elucidates and justifies the authors' ideas for advancing the state of the art, mapping the aforementioned tools and techniques to the DevOps Cycle while considering aspects of Do-178C. Chapter 4 outlines the experiences gathered while implementing a demonstrator using the tools and techniques. Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the findings and presents a compilation of open points and missing pieces that remain to be resolved.

The book caters to three distinct reader groups. The first group consists of development managers from the aerospace industry seeking examples and experience reports for the application of DevOps for airborne software. The second group comprises investigators in the safety-critical embedded systems domain seeking benchmarks across various application domains. The third group includes lecturers offering graduate-level software engineering courses focused on safety-critical software engineering.

Weight: 125g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030975784
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022