LDRA has unveiled LDRArules, a programming rule checker that brings together a collection of rules from a broad spectrum of programming standards. Implemented as a stand-alone product, LDRArules enables development teams to improve their software quality by selecting and adhering to relevant industry programming standards.

LDRA has been selected by Esprit Lean to prove compliance of medical technology being developed to assist in cancer treatment. Esprit Lean chose the LDRA tool suite to provide the static analysis and standards verification needed to achieve compliance to IEC 62304.

LDRA has today announced the introduction of LDRA tool suite support for Jenkins. Jenkins connects the build and version control systems with quality management and automated testing. By linking the LDRA tool suite to Jenkins, the platform can invoke the LDRA tool suite to perform analysis, track test and verification fulfilment, and assess overall improvements or regressions in code quality over time.

LDRA has automated the interface between the LDRA tool suite and Atmel’s AVR Studio. This interface ensures that aerospace applications developed using Atmel’s AVR ATmega128 are certifiable to DO-178C Level A. Automating the interface provides an efficient way for developers to more easily complete elements of DO-178C qualification that otherwise demand a highly skilled and labor-intensive process.

LDRA announced the integration of Visure Solutions’ IRQA requirements engineering tools with TBmanager, a test management and traceability component within the LDRA tool suite. The strong integration of the products will ease regulatory compliance by providing transparent, end-to-end traceability from system requirements to verification and validation for safety- and mission-critical software.

LDRA has announced a new consulting service that helps manufacturers of automotive equipment achieve ISO 26262 compliance. To ensure cost-effective, best-practice implementation of automotive industry guidelines, LDRA Certification Services (LCS) has brought together industry experts with extensive experience as auditors, OEM and government regulator liaisons and standards curriculum trainers that specialize in systems, software and electronic ha...

LDRA has created LDRA Certification Services (LCS), a division devoted to helping customers develop certification-ready products. The LCS team includes Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Designated Engineering Representatives (DER) and safety engineering experts, who offer product certification solutions at a fixed price. They are able to offer this client-centered, risk-free approach, based on their vast experience.

LDRA has extended the LDRA tool suite to support direct integration with Altera’s Embedded Design Suite (EDS) for Nios II soft core processors. In the past, these processors lacked sufficient CPU and memory to be used in automotive, medical, industrial and avionics environments.

LDRA,has integrated the LDRA tool suite with National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW Virtual Instruments. The LDRA-NI solution offers hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, a technique used to develop and test the complex real-time embedded systems commonly found in military and aerospace designs.

LDRA has announced that its LDRA tool suite now supports QNX Software System Limited’s QNX Momentics Tool Suite and QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System (RTOS). This offers a best-in-class approach fine-tuned for development needs and compliance to industry standards. Increased government scrutiny and new standards have created a compliance burden that challenges time-to-market goals and threatens to explode software development costs. By pro...

LDRA has boosted the automation, efficiency and customisation of certification processes with Version 9 of the LDRA tool suite. While maintaining legacy tools and features, LDRA has unified its tools with a common user interface, central repositories and performance optimisations to offer superior lifecycle traceability. These improvements slash the time and cost of certification, extending LDRA’s leadership in delivering certification and veri...

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, celebrates the first anniversary of the launch of a local office in Bangalore, India. Building on LDRA’s 35 years in best-practice programming, certification and testing, LDRA India has developed contracts with India’s defense, aerospace, nuclear and other government-owned public sector industries.

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LDRA and DDC-I will offer two complimentary half-day seminars on developing safety-critical software to the highest levels of DO-178B/C certification. Industry experts outline practical techniques for meeting project timelines and cost targets with DO-178B and offer insight into key differences in the new DO-178C standard that can yield significant productivity improvements in software process.

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has achieved Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Compatibility for the LDRA tool suite.

LDRA, the leader in standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, has developed another first—requirements-to-object–code traceability. In the safety-critical domain, devices required to meet the most critical levels of certification must verify software traceability from requirements through design to code at both source- and object-code levels.

LDRA launches support for the IEC 61508 and IEC 61508:2010 standards, functional safety standards for electrical/electronic/programmable electronic systems, from requirements through design, code, analysis and certification. As a broad functional safety standard applicable to a wide range of industries, the IEC 61508 standard focuses on risk reduction and the safety lifecycle for equipment and systems under software control.

LDRA has extended TBmanager, a test management and traceability component within the LDRA tool suite. With the adoption of process-oriented standards such as IEC 62304, IEC 61508:2010 and ISO/DIS 26262, software developers must comply with programming standards and provide requirements traceability. To ease compliance and requirements traceability, TBmanager has been extended to deliver greater transparency, implement consistent test plans throug...

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, is announcing its selection by Analox, a leader in gas-detection technology, for compliance and test generation. Analox chose the LDRA tool suite for two projects—a dive monitoring system and for its Analox Sub MkIIIF system that measures oxygen, carbon dioxide, pressure, temperature and humidity in hyperbaric chambers and submarine rescue vehicl...

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools now supports assembly-level code for MIPS processors. Targeting high reliability applications in aviation, satellite, medical and aerospace, the LDRA tool suite provides assembler support for Green Hills and GNU variants of MIPS assembly along with C-style macro syntax. Thanks to this support, legacy applications can be fully certified to the most r...