The Road to Safety Certification - Xen Project's Progress in the Auto Industry

Explore the journey of the Xen Project towards safety certification in highly regulated industries, particularly the automotive sector, in this 44-minute conference talk. Delve into the motivations, challenges, and progress made in achieving safety certification for open-source software. Learn about the technical enablers, necessary process and tooling changes, and community challenges faced by the Xen Project. Discover the project's approach to safety certification, including the initial scope, development model, and key considerations such as traceability, documentation, and validation. Gain insights into the importance of virtualization in embedded use cases, the ecosystem impact, and the unique challenges of retrofitting open-source projects for safety certification. Understand the project's strategy for community scalability and credible planning through user stories and a split development model.

Introduction
Why Virtualisation
History of Xen
Embedded Use Cases
What does this mean for a project
Off of safety certification
Two sets of problems
Key point
The ecosystem
What does this mean
Initial Safety Certification Scope
How are we starting to break order problems
Building common understanding
Split development model
Examples
The VModel
Open Source Projects
Open Source Requirements
Retrofitting
Process discipline
Traceability
Documentation Tools
Validation
Misra
The Experiment
Community Scalability
Getting to a credible plan
Our approach
User Stories