Embedded Software

Among the various types of software Embedded Software is a class of its own: it ensures critical missions and if wrongly designed it can disturb the human organization lead to large losses injure or kill many people. Updates are difficult and rather expensive or even impossible. Designing Embedded Software needs to include quality in the development process but economic competition requires designing less expensive products.This book addresses Embedded Software developers Software Quality Engineers Team Leaders Project Managers and R&D Managers. The book we will introduce Embedded Software languages tools and hardware. Then we will discuss the challenges of Software Quality. Software Development life cycles will be presented with their advantages and disadvantages. Main standards and norms related to software and safety will be discussed. Next we will detail the major development processes and propose a set of processes compliant with CMMI-DEV SPICE and SPICE- HIS.Agile methods as well as DO-178C and ISO 26262 will have specific focus when necessary. To finish we will promote quality tools needed for capitalization and reaching software excellence.