DevCertOps: Strategies to Realize Continuous Delivery of Safe Software in Regulated Domain

Traditionally, promoted by the internet companies, DevOps is more and more appealing to industries which develop systems with safety-critical functions. Since safety-critical systems must meet regulatory requirements and require specific safety assurance processes in addition to the normal development steps, enabling continuous delivery of software in safety-critical systems requires the automation of the safety assurance process in the delivery pipeline. In this technical briefing, we describe relevant challenges to speed-up the development of safety-critical software-intensive systems from an industrial point of view. Moreover, we outline how to integrate software/system engineering and safety assurance life-cycle into a so-called DevCertOps concept realizing continuous safety assurance safety-critical systems using MBSE and model-based safety assurance concepts.