DO-178C Advanced Training

This seminar is offered in China only and presented in Mandarin Chinese. The course materials are bilingual (English and Chinese).

With the development of Chinese civil aviation industry, more and more people realized the importance of airborne software. During the certification process of previous ARJ21 aircraft, airborne software had captured many concerns. Nowadays the certification process of C919 aircraft has also reached its peak after its maiden flight. In this context, learning how to correctly understand and strictly meet the objectives DO-178C becomes very essential for the people who is developing or is going to develop airborne software.

Being able to correctly interpret the DO-178C objectives alone is not enough for software engineers to meet these objectives or for software inspectors/DERs to justify the compliance with these objectives. They still need to deeply understand the profound foundation and rationales of DO-178C in order to tackle different situations and various difficulties in real applications. This three-day seminar aims to provide attendees with such abilities.

RTCA DO-178C is the worldwide accepted standard for civil aviation software development and certification. Compliance with the objectives of DO-178C is the primary means for meeting airworthiness requirements and obtaining approval of airborne software in TC/STC/TSO, etc.

Being able to correctly interpret the DO-178C objectives alone is not enough for software engineers to meet these objectives or for software inspectors/DERs to justify the compliance with these objectives. They still need to deeply understand the profound foundation and rationales of DO-178C in order to tackle different situations and various difficulties in real applications. This three-day seminar aim to provide attendees with such abilities.

We will first explain the rationale of DO-178C, the concept of certification credits and analyze how it guarantees the safety of airborne software with an acceptable level of confidence. We will then analyze the main difficult topics such as traceability, change impact analysis and change control, requirement coverage and structure coverage, MC/DC and Masking MC/DC, Data Coupling and Control Coupling. This seminar will also deal with the use of DO-178C core document in combine with DO-330, DO-331, DO-332, and DO-333 when tool qualification, MBDV, formal methods, object-oriented techniques are considered.