Articles

YAML Schemas: Validating Data without Writing Code

Tue 23 November 2021 - Sam Thursfield

YAML's data model can represent arbitrary data, so when an app parses a YAML document it might get back anything. It's up to the developer to check that the data is structured how the app expects and to control what happens when it isn't. Does it report an error to the user? Is the behaviour undefined? Does it crash?

Codethink safety team and Exida certificate

Deterministic Construction Service

Tue 09 November 2021 - Paul Albertella

Introducing the Deterministic Construction Service (DCS) design pattern

Codethink becomes a Microchip Design Partner

Tue 02 November 2021 - Yasmin Ferreras Greenwood

We are proud to announce that Codethink has joined the Microchip Design Partner program, specializing in Functional Safety and MPU, to assist their clients in the creation of electronic systems.

Hamsa: Using an NVIDIA Jetson Development Kit to create a fully open-source Robot Nano Hand

Thu 28 October 2021 - Kiran Ostrolenk

Codethink has been collaborating with Silicon Highway and The Robot Studio to program a fully open-source, standalone robot hand using an NVIDIA Jetson Development Kit.

Using STPA with software-intensive systems

Tue 19 October 2021 - Paul Albertella

How Codethink are using STPA for risk analysis of software-intensive systems and integrating the outputs into the engineering process.

Codethink achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D Tool Certification

Tue 05 October 2021 - Yasmin Ferreras Greenwood

Codethink's first ISO 26262 ASIL D Tool Certification - Deterministic Construction Service (DCS)

RISC-V: running GNOME OS on SiFive hardware for the first time

Tue 28 September 2021 - Valentin David, Sam Thursfield

Codethink continues to participate in the promising RISC-V ecosystem, and we have exciting news around Freedesktop SDK and GNOME.

Automated Linux kernel testing

Tue 21 September 2021 - Neill Whillans, Laurence Urhegyi

Everyone wants the same thing: stable software for the long term, including the latest features. To achieve this, you need to have confidence in your software and in the software you depend on, which has to come from testing.

Native compilation on Arm servers is so much faster now

Tue 14 September 2021 - Paul Sherwood

Previously ARM servers were slower than x86, but not any more

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Higher quality of FOSS: How we are helping GNOME to improve their test pipeline

Thu 12 August 2021 - Sam Thursfield

High quality releases require high quality testing infrastructure. To show how deep OS and GUI testing can be done, let's look at the OpenQA instance we helped set up for GNOME.