Case Study: Leading Avionics Company achieves DO-178C compliance and streamlined, safer development with Parasoft C/C++test

Industry Leader Streamlines Workflow & Delivers Safe, Secure Avionic Systems

A leading defense and aerospace avionics supplier with over 80 years of experience faced a critical compliance and quality challenge: they must develop flight‑control and other safety‑critical systems to DO‑178C DAL A standards and enforce a company‑specific coding standard that augments MISRA C and ISO C90. The team needed a customizable static analysis and testing tool that would provide traceable evidence for audits, automate tedious parts of code review, and ensure code is readable, maintainable, and certifiable over long aircraft lifecycles.

They implemented Parasoft C/C++test, creating a custom rule set that integrates into their development workflow to provide instant, continuous feedback, automate rule enforcement and parts of the review process, and speed onboarding of new developers. The result is increased development efficiency, earlier defect detection, consistent adherence to corporate and DO‑178C requirements, improved maintainability for long product lifecycles, and support for tool qualification to streamline certification efforts.