We regularly announce tool bugs that could affect existing integrations, when those bugs affect the assurance of the tool output. This includes false positives, missed code constructs (for coverage analysis) and unwanted functional changes to the software under test. We provide advice, workarounds and fix schedules for all assurance issues that we publish this way.

We’ll run the bug through our usual problem reporting, triage and assurance issue analysis processes. If you cannot use a workaround, we can provide add-on fixes or new wavefront versions of the tool that fix your issue, depending on your needs.

Tool qualification provides evidence that the software you’re using doesn’t introduce or fail to detect errors in your software when it is being used within your project. If you’re working in the context of safety standards such as DO-178 or ISO 26262, you need to provide this evidence if the tool you’re using automates or replaces a manual process and you aren't manually reviewing output from the tool.

If you're new to DO-178C certification, or want a reminder, our DO-178C training workshops (joint with ConsuNova Inc.) offer expert guidance on DO-178C compliance.

We offer tool qualification support for DO-178B, DO-178C and ISO 26262 safety standards.

We’ve described this in our Tool Qualification Product Briefs.

We produce our qualification material for both DO-178C and ISO 26262 qualification support in alignment with guidelines in RTCA’s DO-330: Software Tool Qualification Considerations.

RVS tool qualification covers the use of RVS in projects written in Ada, C and C++, including mixed language projects.

The qualification support we already have available is listed on our Resources page. If you need qualification support that isn’t listed, contact us to see how we can help.

If you want qualification support for using an RVS tool in a specific safety context and we don’t already offer qualification support for this combination, we’d be happy to hear from you to discuss extending our support. Contact us for more information.

We follow the DO-330/ED-215 guidance for qualification of a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) tool. Per these standards, a tool vendor cannot provide all of the evidence needed for tool qualification – some of it must be provided by the tool user.

Our qualified target integration service includes all of the DO-330 tool developer items, as well as documentation and effort to help you to complete DO-330 tool user items.

This includes generic documents, on-site tests and expected results that help you produce a large proportion of the evidence you need for qualification, including all of the documentation that needs to be provided by the tool vendor (us). In addition to what we provide, you will need to run on-site tests, check results against a list of expected results, and produce some documents, such as the user Tool Operation Requirements, yourself. We provide template tool user documents to help you with this.

See our Tool Qualification Product Briefs for more details.

We use flexible tool components and custom integrations to maximize the efficiency of our tools and their compatibility with a wide range of targets and test environments. The price of this flexibility is additional tool qualification work. We’ve split our qualification support into two parts – one for the flexible tool components and one for the custom integration – and we’ve done everything we can to reduce the effort involved in the custom part.

Licenses for our qualification support are valid for a specific version of the RVS tools you’re using, a specific integration of those tools into your development environment, and a specific customer project.

Please contact us if you need to use our qualification kits in multiple projects, or projects with multiple certifications.

If you make a change to the RVS tool version or integration of RVS into your development environment after we have produced qualification materials, we will need to reproduce those materials, which will incur extra costs.

For more information, see our Tool Qualification Product briefs.

If it’s a genuine mistake, we can issue an addendum report or reissue any affected documents, as appropriate. If you need a different scope or level of information, that can be accommodated but requires more effort. For more information, contact us.

We offer a frozen version support service for qualified RVS integrations, so you can rest assured that you will have access to the version of RVS you're qualifying even if your project has a very long life cycle.

The length of the tool qualification process varies depending on the complexity of your project and integration.

In general, we can deliver a qualified target integration service in around 6 weeks from the submission of a purchase order, subject to any configuration changes and the availability of Rapita engineers.

We confirm the delivery schedule after we receive your purchase order.

Note that changes to the configuration of your integration during the service delivery process may affect engineering effort, delivery dates and costs.

We customize RVS qualification kits to reflect aspects of your development environment in order to reduce review effort. They include documentation, requirements and test results for the specific RVS tools you are using and the programming languages used in your project.

Qualification kits also include tool user document templates and compliance checklists that help you check your compliance with DO-330 tool user objectives.

RVS qualification kits are designed to make the qualification process easier. Each kit includes a qualification timeline that clearly identifies key stages in the process, and compliance checklists help you check your progress.