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.