In this episode we will learn about a special clause in ISO standard, specifically ISO26262- 8- 11.4.3, a must know for anyone involved in tool qualification. Tune in to know all details of this crucial chapter in the tool qualification world. We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas.
In this episode, Dr. Oscar Slotosch introduces a special offer from Validas: the First Quick Qualification. If you like to read more about it, you can listen to our new episode and visit our webpage: https://www.validas.de/en/services/fqq/ and if you like to get your First Quick Qualification,you can already plan your kickoff meeting with Oscar: Book time to meet with me We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our websi...
In this episode, Dr. Oscar Slotosch introduces a special offer from Validas: the Tool Readiness Check, which is available for free to its customers. If you like to read more about it, visit our webpage: https://www.validas.de/en/services/tool_readiness_check/ and If you like to get your free tool readiness check, you can already plan your tool readiness check Kickoff meeting with Oscar: Book time to meet with me We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and...
In this special episode, our host Dr. Oscar Slotosch is joined by Marcel Ropos, a security expert from Validas. They will be discussing the famous XZ-attack and its implications for security. We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast .
In this special Episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch and our special guest Masoud Asadzadeh discuss about time profiling in library qualification. Masoud has recently joined Validas and will tell has about his past and current experience in time profiling! if you are interested in the topic tune in! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
In this episode we will learn from Dr. Oscar Slotosch about Function based library qualification and why Validas usually chooses this method among others library qualification approaches! Tune in! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast .
In this special Episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch will enjoy the company of a special guest: Florian Grigoleit. During this pleasant chat with Oscar, Florian will share with us his experience as safety engineer and founder of Modelwise! Tune in! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
After a break we are back with our episode number 14 of our second season! Today Dr. Oscar Slotosch will tell us about tool confidence, and how this relates to our toolchain modeling! Don’t miss it, and tune in to know more! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast.
In this special Episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch will enjoy the company of a special guest: Benjamin Flach. Banjamin is the AUTOSAR expert at Validas, and during this pleasant chat with Oscar, he will get us into the world of AUTOSAR and its qualification. Tune in to discover more! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
This episode is a follow up of episode 38 , where we will learn from Dr. Oscar Slotosch even more details about Validas' Process models and Process modeling tool (PMT), and why is this tool essential in the Validas' qualification processes! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
In our Episode 11 Dr. Oscar Slotosch will discuss the choice of colors in the Validas' Tool chain Analyzer (TCA). Nothing can be left to chance, tune in to know more about why colors are important! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast .
In today's Episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch will talk about traceabilty in Tool Qualification. We will hear why we can't give up on traceabilty in tools and libraries qualification, and how TCA can support in keeping traceability always under control. Tune in! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
In our new Episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch is going to discuss how to handle findings when testing tools&libraries. And we will hear about interesting findings examples he has encountered during his career. Tune in! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
In Today’s Episode we will hear about English for safety experts. In general, but especially in a legal context also nuances in the language can be very important to best interpret safety standards. Dr. Oscar Slotosch will share with us some tips in this regard. Tune in to know more! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast . As promised, here the link to our Episode about TCA...
In today’s episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch will tell us about a new exciting challenge for Validas: building and maintaining a new growing Qualification Kit to support the IBM engineering Tool Suite. How do Validas together with IBM have planned to make this a successful project? tune in to discover the details! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
In our new episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch will discuss Tool Qualification in IEC 61508. A safety standard that he uses to define as mother of all standards. If you want to know why, and learn many other interesting details about IEC61508, just tune in! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast ....
In today’s episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch will give us an overview about safety conferences. He will tell us about his experience as chairman and speaker at the 2021 online conference on automotive ISO 26262 functional safety, and will give us some exciting news about other coming conferences. Tune in! And, as mentioned in the episode, here is the link to our episode 42 with Dr. Daniel Kästner! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be foun...
How and when the amount of work required to qualify our tools can be significatively reduced? If you want to learn about this, tune in and discover the tips and tricks of Dr. Oscar Slotosch to make our life easier in qualifying and not-qualifying our tools! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respectively at validas.de and podcast.
In today’s episode, Dr. Oscar Slotosch will give an overview of the DDO-330, a safety standard originally developed in the avionics domain. DO-330 was, in fact, built for the qualification of avionics software, but is today a stand-alone standard focused on tool-qualification, and can be of great support also in other fields. To know more tune in to our new episode! We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas and our podcast can be found on our website respecti...
Known bugs are one of the main concepts in safety. Most of the big software projects maintain a list of known bugs. Why are they so important and how can we handle them? In this Episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch will discuss about this and much more. Including how known bugs are integrated and modeled within the Tool Chain Analyser (TCA) at Validas. Additionally, as promised we post here the link to our Episode 13 , if you like to know more details about Certifications. We can be reached through podcas...
How can Validas’ team generate arbitrary documentation fast and efficiently? In our first episode of the second season Dr. Oscar Slotosch discusses the Configurable Report Generator, a new smart tool, developed within the TCA-SW , to document how tools, libraries and software comply with safety standards! Tune in to learn more. We can be reached through podcast@validas.de and all information about Validas can be found on our website, validas.de...
In this final episode of the first season of our podcast, Dr. Oscar Slotosch discusses Validas’s Tool Chain Analyzer for Software (TCA-SW), which contains the automated document generation and visual representations that can help you effectively ‘re-engineer’ your projects with safety as a priority. Tune in to learn about the intricacies of the TCA-SW and the differences and similarities in the approach Validas takes to analyze tools and libraries using their Tool Chain Analyzer. If you would li...
In this short question episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch introduces Validas’s growing QKit — a qualification kit that contains as few or as many components as you need, and that grows and expands with the size of your project. If you would like to listen to another one of our episodes, we can recommend Episode 41: Validas’s Generic Safety Plan or another one of our short question episodes: Question 04: Do famous tools need to be qualified? and Question 05: What do we mean by high probability in tool qu...
In this episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch is joined by Dr. Daniel Kästner, co-founder of AbsInt and accomplished expert on safety-critical embedded systems, for a discussion of the applications of static analysis to safety-critical software and the advanced development tools offered by AbsInt. Tune in to learn about the static code analyzer for C and C++ that can prove the absence of runtime errors and invalid concurrent behavior ( Astrée ) and AbsInt’s formally verified production compiler ( CompCert ...
What does it mean to validate a tool, and what to verify it — and where do we find these terms in tool qualification prescribed by the ISO 26262 safety standard? In this short question episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch clarifies common misunderstandings and explains when it is appropriate to perform a code review, and when a tool should be tested. To learn more about how tool validation is used in practice, join us in our Episode 20: SuperTest with Marcel Beemster (Solid Sands) , to hear more customer ...
To make the process of building safe products more efficient and reliable, Validas has developed a generic safety plan for software and safety elements out of context (SEOOC), which has the added benefit of generating all the required ISO documents automatically from its model. In this episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch presents the generic safety plan and explains how it can be used to speed up the creation of safety cases — for a variety of safety standards and projects. The full list of Validas’s inn...
In the development of modern medical procedures and devices, and especially those that directly affect a person’s health, the safety of software tools needs to be paramount. In this episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch shares his insights into the topic of qualification for medical devices, including the current requirements and processes defined by safety standards and governmental agencies, as well as the future developments we can expect in the field of medical tools. A short summary of the discussed s...
To have high confidence in a qualified tool, we should be able to detect its potential errors with a high probability. This condition is commonplace within safety standards, but what does high probability mean in practice? In this short question episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch explains how high probability of error detection should — or shouldn’t — be measured and how we can achieve it in tool qualification. If you would like to learn more about the role of confidence in tool qualification, listen to...
Tool safety is not crucial just for the production of physical parts and mechanical devices, but it has also had an important role in the monitoring of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode Dr. Oscar Slotosch responds to the recent news of the English government losing thousands of data entries by their unsafe use of Microsoft Excel, which may have caused irreversible damage to the contact tracing and pandemic containment efforts in the United Kingdom. This oversight has been cove...
As a key technique in any large-scale project, process modeling also has a role in qualification — but the right process modeling tool can provide you with more advantages than you would expect. Join Dr. Oscar Slotosch in this episode to learn about the process modeling technology (PMT) used by Validas, the design that went into its creation, and the features Validas experts use to simplify tool and library qualification projects. Further information and free download packages of Validas’s certi...
