About our Compliance and Safety Framework (COSAFE)
Compliance made simple. Safety made smart.
Validas’ Compliance and Safety Framework (COSAFE) automates tool, library, and compiler qualification, delivering compliance-ready documentation and seamless CI/CD integration for continuous confidence.
How it works
COSAFE + Qualification Package = QKit
COSAFE, combined with a use case-specific Qualification Package, forms a Qualification Kit (QKit), enabling you to generate a set of standard-compliant documentation that demonstrates your qualified software component meets all safety requirements of the selected safety standard. This process can be automated if needed and seamlessly integrated into your existing CI environments, allowing continuous monitoring of your qualification status.
COSAFE architecture & components
The Qualification Support Engine is the core module of COSAFE, designed to orchestrate the entire qualification process for safety-critical software. Acting as the central runtime, QSE seamlessly combines formal models from industry standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 with the specific models of our Qualification Packages, ensuring full compliance and efficiency.
Key Capabilities:
- Intelligent test case selection
- Automated test plan generation
- Flexible test configuration
- Robust test execution
- Comprehensive test evaluation & analysis
- Detailed test reporting
- Document generation for standard-compliant outputs in multiple formats
QSE also features a powerful Command Line Interface (CLI) for headless integration into your custom CI/CD environment, enabling seamless automation and scalability.
Our compliance models provide a comprehensive set of rigorously defined models based on internationally recognized safety and security standards, ensuring every qualification step is traceable, validated, and compliant.
Key Features:
- Standards Compliance: Models aligned with ISO 26262, IEC 61508-3, and other leading standards.
- Built-in Traceability: Continuous monitoring and live validation from project start to closure.
- Certified Methodology: Every process follows our TÜV-approved procedure for maximum reliability.
Supported Standards:
- ISO 26262 – ASIL B & ASIL D
- IEC 61508 – SIL 3
- EN 50716
- DO178 / DO330
- IEC 62443
- IEC 21434
The Test Automation Unit is a fully configurable test environment designed to adapt seamlessly to your specific infrastructure. It executes every individual test case with precision and generates comprehensive, reliable results.
Key Features:
- Customizable Integration: Tailored to fit your customer environment for smooth deployment.
- Automated Execution: Runs all test cases efficiently, reducing manual effort and errors.
- Result Generation: Produces detailed outputs for analysis and compliance reporting.
With the Test Automation Unit, you gain a robust solution for accelerating qualification workflows while ensuring accuracy and consistency.
The customer specific configuration module captures all environment-dependent settings required for seamless qualification. It ensures that your unique runtime and target environments are fully supported.
Key Features:
- Environment Mapping: Includes runtime and target system configurations.
- Qualification Alignment: Integrates customer-specific data.
- Flexible Adaptation: Designed to fit diverse infrastructures and compliance needs.
This module provides the customization layer that makes COSAFE perfectly aligned with your operational context.
COSAFE is built to flexibly meet your unique needs. We’re here to help you customize outputs and integrations so they align perfectly with your corporate standards and workflows.
Key Features:
- Corporate Identity Integration: Generate documents in your unique branding and style.
- Extended Export Options: Create additional export formats for seamless embedding into your CI/CD environment.
- Flexible Customization: Tailored enhancements to meet specialized compliance or operational needs.
Your processes are unique—COSAFE makes sure your qualification solution fits perfectly. Talk to us about your customization needs!
