This Springer Brief presents a selection of tools and techniques which
either enable or improve the use of DevOps for airborne software
engineering. They are evaluated against the unique challenges of the
aviation industry such as safety and airworthiness, and exercised using
a demonstrator in order to gather first experience.
The book is structured as follows: after a short introduction to the
main topics of the work in chapter 1, chapter 2 provides more
information on the tools, techniques, software and standards required to
implement the subsequently presented ideas. In particular, the
development practice BDD, the relation between DevOps, CI & CD and both
the Rust & the Nix programming language are introduced. In chapter 3 the
authors explain and justify their ideas towards advancing the state of
the art, mapping the aforementioned tools and techniques to the DevOps
Cycle while considering aspects of Do-178C. Next, in chapter 4 the
experiences gathered while implementing a demonstrator using the tools
and techniques are described. Eventually, chapter 5 briefly summarizes
the findings and presents a compilation of open points and missing
pieces which are yet to be resolved.
The book targets three different reader groups. The first one are
development managers from the aerospace industry who need to see
examples and experience reports for the application of DevOps for
airborne software. The second group are investigators in the
safety-critical embedded systems domain who look for benchmarks at
various application domains. And the third group are lecturers who offer
graduate level software engineering courses for safety-critical software
engineering.
