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What is Safety-Critical Software, and How Can Ada and SPARK Help?

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What is Safety-Critical Software, and How Can Ada and SPARK Help?
FOSDEM 2019

We are (too much) used to software having bugs as an unavoidable fate. But for safety-critical software, like the code that's driving planes or trains, "Failure is Not an Option".

This presentation exposes the constraints of such software, and how they require a special state of mind, special methods, and special tools - like Ada and SPARK. And these can be useful for more casual programming - zero bug software is nice, even when not safety-critical!

Speakers: Jean-Pierre Rosen