Articles

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

Mon 27 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.

RISC-V: A Small Hardware Project

Thu 15 July 2021 - Robin J. Heywood

As part of Codethink's interest in RISC-V, we created some simple hardware.

Why aligning with open source mainline is the way to go

Thu 17 June 2021 - Neill Whillans

You’ve made a choice to use open-source software as part of your product release. That’s a great start. Open-source software projects usually have large contributing communities that help improve the software’s quality and functionality over time.

Build Meetup 2021: The BuildTeam Community Event

Fri 11 June 2021 - Nicole Mpofu

For the last few months, the BuildTeam Community has been organising a meetup to gather like-minded community members to discuss, share and exchange innovations and relevant topics and systems in build.

A new approach to software safety

Thu 20 May 2021 - Paul Albertella

Applying functional safety practices to modern software-intensive systems requires a different approach to the established methods enshrined in current safety standards. Codethink have been working with Exida on a new approach to software safety for systems based on Linux.