RVS is the leading toolsuite for the verification of critical software.

Used globally in the aerospace and automotive industries, it includes tools for functional and requirements-based testing, timing analysis including worst-case execution time analysis, and structural code coverage analysis. 

RVS works by combining static and dynamic analyses of software execution to gain an understanding of the software architecture. Using this understanding, RVS injects and/or instruments code to perform a variety of functions including generating and running functional test harnesses, analyzing the structural coverage achieved during functional testing, and analyzing the timing behavior of code being executed.

By integrating into the existing development environment and continuous build servers, RVS reduces the cost of software verification. The flexible nature of RVS integrations and its extremely low instrumentation overheads support its use on even the most complex systems, including multicore systems.

We have been providing quality products and customer service to companies primarily in the aerospace and automotive embedded industries since 2004, as demonstrated by our case studies. As our products are designed to meet the stringent requirements for DO-178B/C certification in the aerospace industry, they are well-suited to any safety/mission-critical application such as those in the nuclear, medical, industrial and rail industries.

You can request a trial version of RVS. You can also arrange a demonstration, where a member of our team will work with you to show the benefits RVS can offer you.

The design requirements of all RVS tools include the ability to work alongside your existing development environment. You can configure these tools to generate verification metrics and run tests using custom scripts, and can integrate the tools into your existing version control and continuous build systems. 

All RVS tools support numerous data collection strategies, which are optimized to achieve a minimal instrumentation overhead. You can collect data using debuggers, logic analyzers, directly from the address bus, or using our datalogger, RTBx. By working with you to determine the optimal data collection strategy, you can ensure you achieve results with minimal effort.

All our RVS tools are designed to meet the most stringent needs of certification processes, such as the DO-178B/C process used in the aerospace industry and the ISO 26262 process used in the automotive industry. We can provide developer qualification documents, a template integration qualification report and on-site tests to support you in qualifying RVS tools in projects requiring certification.

The instrumentation overheads for RVS tools are the lowest in the market, and the tools can support zero-instrumentation overhead in some cases. Because of this, RVS can generate verification data from your source code in fewer builds than possible using other tools. For example, in a recent customer evaluation, RapiCover instrumentation overhead was 4 to 5 times lower than competitor tools, leading to a 92% reduction in the number of builds necessary to test the code base. If necessary, you can configure RVS tools to instrument your code in multiple builds and compile collected data into a single report. 

RVS tools support Windows 7 or newer, Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer, and a variety of Linux distributions including Ubuntu and Red Hat.

RVS tools can be used on projects with unsupported operating systems by using a clone integration to split the process and delegate parts of it to the unsupported machine.

All RVS tools can be integrated to work with almost any compiler and target hardware. Our integration service promises to deliver a robust integration of RVS into your build system.

RVS tools can be integrated to work with almost any embedded target. Our engineers can work with you to determine the optimal strategy for integrating the tool with your target, even for multi-core architectures. For more information on the hardware architectures we have integrated RVS tools with, see the compatibility information on our RVS product pages.

RVS supports C, C++ and Ada projects, including mixed-language ones.

All RVS tools include a friendly user-interface that presents your data in both tabular and graphical formats. Using this interface, you can filter your results to zoom in on target functions, making it easy to find the information you are looking for.

RVS tools are designed to handle very large code bases. Because of the efficient algorithms used by RVS tools, there is no fundamental limitation to the number of lines of code that RVS can process, and our RVS tools have been used on projects with millions of lines of code.

We offer both “Node-locked” and “Floating” licenses, and a license server to support use of our tools in your specific development environment. Floating licenses follow the “Enterprise” model, meaning that you can use our tools across geographical boundaries^* and different projects and users.

For more information on our licensing models, see our RVS licensing FAQs.

^*Some floating licenses may be restricted to use within a specific geographical region. Where this is the case, this is agreed before licenses are issued.

All RVS licenses include access to our dedicated in-house support team, who will work with you to provide a rapid fix to your issue. This is a critical part of our vision. During 2016, we responded to 97% of new support requests within one working day, closed 56% of these within 3 working days and 91% within 20 working days. We also inform our customers of known issues via our website and email. 

We provide an extensive set of RVS documentation with each of our products, and offer training courses guiding you through the most effective use of RVS tools. All our users can benefit from privileged access to our website, which includes downloads for new product releases. 

RVS, Rapita's verification toolsuite, supports multicore timing analysis by letting you capture and analyze a range of performance metrics from multicore platforms, including software timing behavior and other metrics such as cache hits and misses.

RVS makes it easy to view and analyze multicore timing results by letting you filter your results on the performance metrics and tests you want to see and letting you select a baseline against which to compare your results.

The Rapita Verification Suite (RVS) has been used in the critical embedded industry for over 15 years and supported a number of avionics projects globally. Qualification kits for qualified RVS products have supported more than 20 DO-178B and C certification projects up to and including DAL A.