The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) is a collaboration between vehicle manufacturers, component suppliers and engineering consultants which seeks to identify a set of rules that should be followed in safety- critical electronic applications of the automotive industry. They have already developed rules for the C programming language and are actively pursuing for other high level languages including auto code generation using MATLAB.
The MISRA software guidelines, "Development Guidelines for Vehicle Based Software" was published in 1994 and has since been widely accepted by the industry. They call for the use of a restricted subset of the high level languages so that the derived final executable code becomes fail safe to an extent. The latest version of the guidelines is MISRA-C:2004.
To give more information on these MISRA has recently launched a website http://www.misra-c.com/. This site includes information on all the coding guidelines as well as answers to frequently asked questions. A discussion forum is also there.
Although developed for the automotive industry it is now used in various other fields where safety and reliability are of prime concern such as medical equipment manufacturing.
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