The EVOLVE Project

EVOLVE stands for Evolutionary Validation, Verification and Certification. EVOLVE is an EUREKA-ITEA2 project and runs from 01/04/2008 until 31/09/2011. The EVOLVE project gathers European partners from Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, involved in the domain of embedded system engineering.

Reliable, accurate, fast and low-cost validation and verification of products is one of the corner stones of the modern high-tech industry. However, many software organizations clearly lack efficient verification and validation technologies that would support rapid, high quality software development in a volatile business environment.

The aim of the EVOLVE project is "The creation of a methodological framework for early verification and validation of evolutionary products through the accredited/certified integration of each iteration and/or component in a MDE (Model Driven Engineering) context."

EVOLVE will provide an iterative and incremental methodology, oriented by the agile and model driven development paradigms, fostering accredited/certified component reusability in a broad sense. The target domain is the construction of software for real-time embedded systems, which may be subject to legal certification or internal company accreditation. Attention is focused on validation of both functional and non-functional properties, from requirements evaluation of an early architecture design to final customer acceptance.

EVOLVE is an EUREKA-ITEA2 project. You can find more infomation about ITEA2 on the ITEA2 web site and the ITEA2 project pages.