Karla Ducharme, IBM


Name: Karla Ducharme

Title: Qualification Kits for Rational Tools

Abstract:

IBM has customers in many industries governed by safety standards that require some kind of tool qualification. These industries include automotive, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, rail, nuclear and other similar industries.

Specific to automotive, the recent introduction of functional safety standards that require tool qualification activities in addition to organizational and product development changes has increased the cost and effort to develop automotive products.

To help lower the time and costs for the tool qualification activities, IBM Rational is providing tool qualification artifacts for customers to use as inputs and artifacts as they qualify their specific tool usage. These artifacts are "generic" in the sense they have been created outside the context of a specific use/project. For every project, the customer is responsible for their own tool qualification and needs to analyze their tool usage and use these artifacts as appropriate.

The types of artifacts IBM is creating include tool validation test suites, safety manuals and workflow guides, third party certification of tool development processes according to an international standards, third party tool certification according to specific standards, and templates. This session will describe the specific artifacts for each tool and explain how a customer would use that in different environments.

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