If software tools are to automate significant numbers of DO-178C activities while producing evidential artefacts showing that objectives have been met, it is essential to ensure that those tools can be relied upon. DO-178C states that:

“the purpose of the tool qualification process is to ensure that the tool provides confidence at least equivalent to that of the processes of this document are eliminated, reduced, or automated".

Tool qualification is a vital part of to the certification process, and it is documented in the supplement DO-330 “Software Tool Qualification Considerations Supplement to DO-178C and DO-278A”.

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