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CS Group Offers New Tools to Support Aircraft Software Testing and Certification
The tools help aircraft developers deal with certification challenges such as meeting Do-178C requirements.
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The CS Group is offering software engineering and certification support to eVTOL aircraft developers, such as Airbus, which is still flight testing its CityAirbus technology demonstrator. [Photo: Airbus]

Software and systems engineering group CS Communication & Systems has announced a set of tools and processes aimed at supporting developers of unmanned aircraft systems and eVTOL aircraft with testing and certification tasks. In particular, the company is looking to help the developers to complete the joint RTCA/Eurocae Do-178C process for approving software for airborne systems and equipment.

During this week’s AUVSI conference, CS introduced the Automated Test Language Artifacts and Scenarios (ATLAS) platform. This uses machine learning to determine the requirements for software and develop so-called behavior-driven design (BDD) scenarios to form the basis for test procedures. According to the company, ATLAS accelerates and simplifies the test process by creating the BDD scenarios and requirement-based functional tests in less than one minute for each requirement.