Software meets updated automotive standards

As a long-standing MISRA committee member, LDRA has been closely involved with the development of the new MISRA-C++:2008 standard, facilitating its early support in the LDRA tool suite.

The LDRA tool suite complies with the soon to be released MISRA-C++:2008 standard from the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA).

The support for MISRA-C++:2008 complements the LDRA tool suite's existing enforcement support for the MISRA-C:1998 and MISRA-C:2004, HIS (Herstellerinitiative Software) and GJB (Chinese Military Standard) standards for the C programming language.

MISRA is a collaboration between automotive manufacturers, component suppliers and engineering consultancies which seeks to promote best practice and commonality in the development of safety-related automotive electronic and other embedded systems through the publication of standard guidelines.

Since its launch, the success of MISRA-C as a "best practice" solution has only seen its application spread throughout the worldwide automotive industry.

It is also increasingly adopted for safety-related and safety-critical software development projects and applications in a wide variety of other industries including the rail, aerospace, military and medical sectors.

With the success of the MISRA-C standard, a MISRA-C++ committee was established in 2005 to work towards the creation of standard MISRA guidelines for the C++ programming language.

As a long-standing MISRA committee member, LDRA has been closely involved with the development of the new MISRA-C++:2008 standard, facilitating its early support in the LDRA tool suite.

"The C++ language is widely used by organisations in the development of safety-critical software applications", said Ian Hennell, Operations Director at LDRA.

"The LDRA tool suite provides the most comprehensive C++ coding standards enforcement available on the market today and this has now been enhanced to support the imminent launch of MISRA-C++:2008".

"Already within the scope of the C++ language we have worked with Lockheed Martin in developing the JSF AV C++ standard, as well as enforcing the High-Integrity C++ Coding Standard and the LM Train Control Program (LMTCP) standard".

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