Hi guys,
I am working on a personal - and FOSS - project, available here:
https://tinyurl.com/kv62kr7t
(Tiny url => becoz of results ranking on search engines)
The goal is too see if D contract programming features can help cover strong design requirements from the aeronautic industry. Those requirements are generated from the industry standard guideline called DO-178c
#step 1
So I found a github project by three Master students dealing with the DO-178, because I actually don't know much about this guideline :)
Their project involved to find an idea, write a design document following the DO guideline, code the idea, and verify through contracts code that the requirements are met.
Their project is using ADA.
#step 2
I wrote the same idea (a snake game) in Dlang, using as much contract techniques as I could think of, as a dlang hobbyist, and using Adam's lib for terminal. Please not that I did NOT test the game on Linux. Windows only. But technically it should work on Linux :)
#step 3
This post! I am actually asking the community for code review, to have a look at the code and:
- correct any mistake you could find. Propose PR.
- add contract programming features (in/out/do, invariant, unittest...) where you think it is necessary. Propose PR.
Important note: I discovered there are 2 levels of contract testing.
- Checking that the code is sound, like verifying func param, etc
- Ensuring that the game will work as a standard snake game! Think win/loose conditions, etc.
I kind of forgot point 2 so far. Feel free to propose PR for anything you think could be relevant to a snake game, on top of the nitpick.
#step 4 (the interesting part!)
I have already translated the document of the students from French to English. This step will involve to compare the requirements they chose in their design with the code coverage of our reviewed code, which has no external guideline.
Note that I did not check those requirements before starting coding my own version of the game. I just followed a rough guideline "let's make a game which works and put some contracts in it."
It will be interesting to see how much code coverage we can reach already.
#step 5
If necessary, fix the missing requirements coverage, and note how easy / hard it is to do so.
#step 6
Write a post-mortem document to be added to the repo.
Voilà! I am from the aero industry, and I think it is kind of awkward to have those jobs offers in ADA, because they become a dead-end for a career.
C/C++ is also used in the industry, but with the same problems which lead to the creation of Dlang, somehow. Buffer overflow on board a plane is not sexy!
I had been wondering for a while if D could be a part of the solution, hence this project. Thanks if you have time to contribute.