Development of Safety-Critical Software Systems Using Open Source Software - A Systematic Map

Summary, in English

The popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) has

increased the interest in using it in safety critical applications.

The aim of this study is to review research carried out on usage

of open source code in development of safety-critical software

and systems. We conducted a systematic mapping study through

searches in library databases and manual identification of articles

from open source conferences.We have identified 22 studies about

using open source software, mainly in automotive, aerospace,

medical and nuclear domains. Moreover, only a few studies

present complete safety systems that are released as OSS in

full. The most commonly used OSS functionalities are operating

systems, imaging, control and data management. Finally most of

the integrated OSS have mature code bases and a commit history

of more than five years.

• Author: Sardar Muhammad Sulaman; Alma Orucevic-Alagic; Markus Borg; Krzysztof Wnuk; Martin Höst; Jose Luis de La Vara
• Department/s: Department of Computer Science; Software Engineering Research Group; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Pages: 17-24
• Publication/Series: [Host publication title missing]
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• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SEAA.2014.25
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Topic: Computer Science
• Keywords: Open source; safety critical; mapping study
• Conference name: Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2014
• Conference date: 2014-08-27 - 2014-08-29
• Conference place: Verona, Italy
• Status: Published
• Project: Embedded Applications Software Engineering
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1089-6503