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EN 50716
EN 50716 and EN 50128 Compliance
Ensure compliance with EN 50128 or EN 50716, the newest standard for rail industry software development, using Parasoft’s advanced testing solutions. Streamline your software life cycle processes. Achieve compliance efficiently with automated tools.
EN 50716
What Is EN 50716?
EN 50128 and present-day EN 50716 are international standards that define the software development life cycle requirements for safety-critical systems in the rail industry. They emphasize the development of safe and reliable software through risk management, documentation, and systematic processes to ensure passenger and system safety.
Satisfy EN 50716
Adhere to stringent software life cycle requirements, manage risks effectively, and ensure operational safety by mastering the development, verification, and validation processes outlined in the standard.
Guide to Achieving Functional Safety in Railway Software
Learn how to achieve EN 50716/EN 50128 verification and validation requirements in the rail industry with significant automation support.
Benefits Parasoft Brings to EN 50716
Achieve compliance by automating critical processes such as static and dynamic analysis, requirements traceability, and code coverage. Using Parasoft’s solutions, teams can reduce development costs, improve software reliability, and streamline certification efforts.
Static Analysis
Identify potential errors, vulnerabilities, and standard violations early in the development life cycle with Parasoft’s static analysis for coding standards like MISRA, CERT, and more. Ensure compliance with EN 50716’s emphasis on robust, safe coding practices.
Ensure Compliance With Functional Safety Standards | Gain compliance support from the various testing methods Parasoft offers. Ensure safe, secure, and reliable C and C++ applications with requirements traceability and compliance report generation. |
Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) | Ensure robust software security for safety-critical systems. Integrate compliance with security coding rules and guidelines from standards such as CWE, CERT, OWASP, and MISRA into your static analysis processes. |
Control Flow Analysis – EN 50716 | Identify potential execution paths through a program and track control movement. This enables you to detect dead code or logic and flow-related issues critical to satisfying compliance. |
Data Flow Analysis – EN 50716 | Identify vulnerabilities, including uninitialized variables and injection flaws. Teams can also find unsafe data handling in electronic systems with sensors, control logic, actuators, and microprocessors that require high safety integrity levels. |
Walkthroughs and Inspections | Enhance static analysis with walkthroughs or the Code Review module. Automate preparation, notifications, and tracking to ensure efficient reviews that align with the standard’s requirements for independent assessment and traceability. |
Test Smarter With AI and ML | Augment static analysis workflows with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Automate the prioritization of critical issues for the team. GenAI offers explanations and suggestions to fix static analysis violations, streamlining compliance efforts. |
Dynamic Analysis
Parasoft’s C and C++ software testing framework supports unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and more. It automates test execution to detect issues during runtime, which is essential for satisfying validation needs. Teams can also take advantage of popular frameworks like GoogleTest.
Unit Testing | Isolate units with automated stubbing frameworks and mocks to validate behavior across various inputs, ensuring compliance with all EN 50716 or EN 50128 safety integrity levels (SIL). |
Automatically Generate Test Cases | Generate test cases automatically to cover edge cases and error conditions. This reduces manual effort and increases test coverage to ensure that every line of code is inspected. |
Structural Code Coverage | Satisfy 100% code coverage requirements with our support for statement, branch, and MC/DC code coverage. Ensure all code paths are tested to meet safety objectives. |
Requirements Traceability
Automate bidirectional traceability between requirements, test cases, test results, source code, and code reviews to satisfy risk management objectives. Maintain alignment with the standard’s focus on life cycle documentation and the requirements traceability matrix.
Compliance Reporting
Automatically track progress towards EN 50716 and EN 50128 compliance with dynamic dashboards. Generate reports to demonstrate compliance and address audits. Gain visibility into testing outcomes, even for large or legacy codebases.
Incorporate Static and Dynamic Analysis Into Your CI/CD Workflow
Parasoft’s static analysis, unit testing, regression testing, code coverage, and requirements traceability integrate seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines. Teams can also incorporate most of these capabilities into testing frameworks like GoogleTest to ensure reliable, safety-compliant software that’s aligned with EN 50716 and EN 50128.
Tool Qualification
Our C/C++ testing solutions have been TÜV SÜD certified according to EN 50716 across all software class levels. The compliance certificate satisfies EN 50716 and EN 50128 requirements, so no further action is needed. However, if desired, we offer a tool qualification kit that automates the process for you to perform tool qualification within your development ecosystem.
Solutions to Help Meet EN 50716 Objectives
C/C++test
Our comprehensive automated software testing solution for safety-critical applications integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines and IDEs. It offers static analysis, dynamic analysis, requirements traceability, code coverage and report generation to ensure that software satisfies verification requirements defined in EN 50716 and EN 50128.
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C/C++test CT
Parasoft’s continuous code quality solution for C/C++ development automates code coverage and requirements traceability for systems that require EN 50716 or EN 50128 compliance. It integrates with testing frameworks like GoogleTest, CppUTest, UnitTest++, or more. Additionally, this solution integrates into CI/CD pipelines to streamline V&V activities.
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DTP
Ensure compliance with EN 50716 and EN 50128 with our reporting and analytics solution, which aggregates test results and requirements traceability. The dynamic dashboard provides visibility into testing gaps and testing progress, supporting iterative safety assessments.
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Insure++
Detect memory problems, runtime errors, and security vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and memory leaks. Insure++ enables proactive identification of memory allocations and deallocations that could affect railway safety, ensuring alignment with the standard.
Learn MoreWhy Parasoft?
Teams gain unique advantages for compliance through our comprehensive suite of tools. Automating critical processes like static and dynamic analysis, requirements traceability, and structural code coverage ensures efficient, reliable verification of safety-critical rail industry software. Our solutions integrate seamlessly into existing development environments to streamline workflows and accelerate compliance efforts.
Dedicated Integrations
Parasoft’s solutions integrate with embedded IDEs and debuggers, supporting environments like Eclipse, VS Code, QNX technology, Wind River Workbench, and more. Teams can simplify development workflows for complex railway systems.
System-to-System Testing for Functional Safety
Leverage Parasoft SOAtest and Virtualize for system-level testing. Automate functional API testing and stabilize dependencies to accelerate EN 50716 and EN 50128 compliance activities.
Time and Cost Savings
Reduce the time and cost of compliance with EN 50716 and EN 50128 by automating labor-intensive tasks and getting targeted insights.
On-Target Hardware Software Testing
When integrating with hardware, ensure accurate and reliable software performance. Test it on the actual target hardware using C/C++ testing tools. This is a must in detecting hardware-specific issues, validating assumptions, and meeting requirements for real-world rail systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
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