Towards Embedded System Agile Development Challenging Verification, Validation and Accreditation: Application in a Healthcare Company

When Agile development meets critical embedded systems, verification, validation and accreditation activities are impacted. Challenges such as tests increase or accreditation documents production have to be managed in terms of time and resources. In this paper, we highlight these challenges and present a continuous integration ecosystem that aims to tackle these issues. We report on how this approach has been applied in a research and development healthcare company named AXONIC.