Software Product Assurance (PA) R&D Road mapping Activities

1. Software Product Assurance (PA)R&D Road mapping Activities ESA/ESTECTEC-QQS SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

2. Mission Needs Increase in complexity Demand for reliable, available, maintainable and safe software systems Push for higher efficiency (more for less) Rapid evolution in software engineering Modern lifecycle approaches Concurrent software engineering Prototyping Open source Challenges Ahead SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

3. Future Missions’ Needs High Reliability Reuse Technologic/Strategic Drivers Dependability Security and Safety Non-Dependence Leadership ESA Objectives Enabling Technologies Methods, Tools and Standards Enhance PA’s Effectiveness and Efficiency Guiding Principles SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

4. Support steering progress to meet future challenges Establish the foundation Implementation plans Prioritisation Resource allocation Structured Areas of software product assurance R&D Objectives for each area SW PA R&D Roadmap SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

5. Workshop ESA-Industry on software PA R&D road mapping Enable dissemination of information Foster open discussion Facilitate the preparation of ESA’s R&D roadmaps to meet the future demands concerning software product assurance, embracing all perspectives Enhance industry’s product assurance effectiveness in ensuring the required high quality levels characterizing space software applications Coordination ESA – European National Space Agencies - Industry SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

6. Identified areas that require software product assurance R&D Dependability and security in software intensive systems Processes and management Reuse Support to engineering Product quality Ground segment Operations and maintenance SW PA R&D Roadmap: Areas of R&D SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

7. Dependability and security in software intensive systems To develop: methods ensuring high-reliability software systems effectively combinations of software RAMS techniques and methods methods in support of distributed, dependable hard real-time systems fault tolerant mechanism and protocols to reduce vulnerability an approach to estimate security risks based on the detection of implementation vulnerabilities in software systems security strategies software PA methods for security-focussed software development processes security-based risk assessment methods security evaluation methods and measurements for open source and COTS software SW PA R&D Roadmap: Objectives (1/6) SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

8. Processes and management To develop: standard process models including quality assurance software project risk management based on software process assessment a software quality assurance approach for FPGA and ASIC design safety and dependability process assessment models quantitative measurements of the benefits of process assessment and improvement a space specific software risk taxonomy an approach to risk based software process improvement requirements and criteria for personnel qualification a metrication framework for software processes SW PA R&D Roadmap: Objectives (2/6) SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

9. Reuse To develop: quality assurance approaches for building block-based software systems quality assurance approaches for Open Source software (OSS) SW PA R&D Roadmap: Objectives (3/6) SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

10. Support to engineering To develop: testing suite adequacy criteria, methods for software intensive systems new software PA methods and techniques in support of evolving software development methods and techniques a quality assurance approach for automatic code generation a quality assurance approach for proof-based systems techniques in support of system evolution a quality assurance approach for network- and web-based systems PA approaches to support agile development models SW PA R&D Roadmap: Objectives (4/6) SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

11. Product quality To develop: software product certification requirements and process approaches for assuring product quality by engaging third party organizations that ascertain the fulfilment of product quality criteria and produce a written statement as part of the product’s quality evidence metrication programs and quality models with emphasis on establishing target values for metrics and clear links between metrics and quality objectives (e.g. for object oriented developments). Requirement quality modelling and metrics reliable reliability models for safety- and dependability-critical software components SW PA R&D Roadmap: Objectives (5/6) SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

12. Ground segment To develop: software PA approach for large ground segments using contracted communication services Operations and maintenance To develop: a software PA approach for operations and maintenance phases SW PA R&D Roadmap: Objectives (6/6) SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades

13. Meet future mission needs in line with ESA goals Define objectives to guide software PA R&D efforts. Justify objectives: Relate to missions, ESA objectives, drivers Describe objectives to allow preparation of implementation plans Early active involvement and contribution from industrial partners Summing up SAS_05_ESA SW PA R&D_Winzer,Prades