About this talk
This talk, presented by John Ellis from Codethink, explores the challenges of software assurance in the context of increasing software complexity and introduces the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework (TSF) as a solution for building trustworthy systems. Recorded at Open Community Experience 2026 in Brussels, the session highlights how modern software supply chains complicate the tasks of maintaining provenance, reproducibility, and traceability at scale, particularly in safety-critical environments.
The speaker discusses TSF's structured approach, which focuses on six core tenets: provenance, construction, changes, expectations, results, and confidence, promoting continuous evidence generation throughout the software development lifecycle. By integrating with CI/CD pipelines, TSF shifts the paradigm from assumption-based to evidence-based trust, aligning with existing standards such as IEC 61508 to enhance compliance and validation processes in software systems.
