Safety-Critical Software Development Processes Fundamentals Training by Tonex
Build systems that never fail dangerously and teams that can prove it. Across two concentrated days, developers and technical leads learn how to engineer software for mission and life-critical contexts—where timing, determinism, and disciplined change control matter as much as features.
The program interlocks process, design, and code-level rigor so your teams can argue safety with evidence. Cybersecurity is treated as a first-class hazard: you’ll harden build pipelines, coding practices, and data pathways to resist adversarial conditions. You will also align compliance and verification artifacts with secure architectures so cyber risks don’t become latent safety failures.
Learning Objectives
- Apply Safe Agile and DevSecOps practices tailored for safety-critical delivery
- Design defensive interfaces, contracts, and failure domains at code level
- Engineer concurrency, timing, and determinism with analyzable behavior
- Enforce memory safety, exception control, and fail-safe recovery patterns
- Preserve data integrity, redundancy, and traceability across the lifecycle
- Institutionalize coding standards, static analysis, and evidence-driven reviews
- Operate configuration management to control hazards introduced by change
- Strengthen assurance where cybersecurity intersects with functional safety, ensuring cybersecurity risks cannot cascade into safety incidents
Audience
- Software Developers and Technical Leads
- Systems and Safety Engineers
- QA/Verification and Validation Engineers
- DevOps/Platform Engineers
- Product/Engineering Managers in regulated domains
- Cybersecurity Professionals
Course Modules
Module 1 – Safe Agile & DevSecOps
- Safety cases integrated into backlogs
- Hazard-based user stories
- Definition of Done with evidence
- Secure CI/CD gating and SBOM
- Threat and hazard co-analysis
- Compliance mapping to artifacts
Module 2 – Secure Coding & Standards
- Defensive APIs and contracts
- MISRA/CERT rule application
- DO-178C code-level evidence
- Static analysis triage workflow
- Safe exception logic exercises
- Coding patterns to prevent CWE
Module 3 – Concurrency & Timing
- Schedulability and latency budgets
- Priority inversion avoidance
- Time determinism measurements
- Lock-free and safe queues
- Real-time deadlines and jitter
- WCET and timing verification
Module 4 – Memory & Fail-Safe Design
- Safe allocation and ownership
- Bounds, lifecycle, and leaks
- Exception containment zones
- Watchdogs and safe degradation
- Recovery blocks and retries
- Proven fail-safe shutdown paths
Module 5 – Data Integrity & Redundancy
- End-to-end data checksums
- Idempotency and replay guards
- Redundant sensor fusion logic
- Data lineage and traceability
- Fault injection for integrity
- Persistence with ACID/RT needs
Module 6 – Safety Configuration Management
- Baselines and controlled variants
- Change impact and hazard links
- Build reproducibility and SBOMs
- Secure branching and approvals
- Traceable reviews and sign-offs
- Audit-ready release packaging
Ready to elevate your team’s rigor and ship software that is safe, secure, and certifiable? Contact Tonex to schedule the 2-day Safety-Critical Software Development Processes Fundamentals Training for your organization.