CEN PREN 16154 PDF

The present document is for the production of assurance evidence for software used in ground-based systems and their constituents.

This Community Specification on Software Assurance Levels (SWAL) is intended to apply to software that is part of the EATMN, focusing only on it's "ground" segment and providing a reference against which stakeholders can assess their own practices for software specification, design, development, operation, maintenance, evolution and decommissioning.

This Community Specification defines the Technical, Operational and Maintenance requirements for Software Assurance Levels to demonstrate compliance with the applicable (see Annex A) Essential Requirements of the Regulation (EC) N° 552/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the European Air Traffic network ("the Interoperability regulation").

Requirements in the present document which refer to "should" statements or recommendations in the normatively referenced material (2.1) are to be interpreted as fully normative ("shall") for the purpose of compliance with the present document.