The main objective is to promote dialogue on SW Product Assurance and SW Engineering matters within the space community, and exchange ideas with industry/academia from other domains (such as automotive, railway…).

    The objectives of the Workshop are:

    • To review the state-of-the-art and trends of SW product assurance and engineering research, technologies, and techniques.
    • To review the current and future applications for SW product assurance and engineering.
    • To assess the impact of these technologies on future satellite systems at space, ground, and user segment levels.
    • To exchange on new ideas.
    • To promote exchanges between system/software and technology specialists.
    • To provide a forum to foster contacts between industry and academia.

    The following topics will be covered:

    • Software and FPGA Product Assurance, Cyber Security.
    • Software development tools, frameworks and methodologies.
    • Agile, scaled agile.
    • Continuous Integration/Quality/Security/Delivery and software factory.
    • Model based software engineering, automatic code generation.
    • Machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence.
    • Fault detection, isolation and recovery techniques, on-board autonomy.
    • Quality models, metrication programs, data quality, managing technical debt.
    • Cloud computing and virtualization (Infrastructure-, Software-, Space Data as a Service).
    • Software dependability and safety, ECSS tailoring, mission classification.
    • Software re-use, open-source software, software licencing, configuration management.
    • Software process assessment for Large System Integrators and Very Small Entities.
    • Software assurance in NewSpace, SmallSat and CubeSat projects.
    • Software assurance in (mega)constellations.
    • Product assurance in science missions (e.g., mission planning, data processing and data archiving).
    • International collaboration across continents.