Application of vertical test commonality to PALADIN maintenance

Author

Garcia, George ; Nichols, Bill

Author_Institution

ATS Team, US Army, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

186

Abstract

This paper describes the Test/Maintenance philosophy for the PALADIN Automatic Fire Control System (AFCS). A key component of this philosophy was the willingness to allow testing requirements to drive system design, particularly in the software area. The PALADIN AFCS is an example of a successful Test Program Set (TPS) effort for a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Performance based item. Common software reuse throughout the testing lifecycle and at various maintenance levels, failure data recording and retrieval between maintenance levels, and TPS program flow modification during execution were all tools utilized to reduce development costs, and cut down AFCS Mean Time to Repair and No Evidence Of Failure occurrences. This integrated maintenance plan has greatly contributed to the maintainability of the PALADIN AFCS

Keywords

automatic test equipment; automatic test software; economics; failure analysis; fault diagnosis; maintenance engineering; military computing; military systems; weapons; COTS; Commercial Off The Shelf Performance; IFTE; PALADIN AFCS; TPS program; automatic fire control system; development costs; failure data; failure data recording; integrated maintenance; maintenance; software reuse; system design; testing lifecycle; Application software; Automatic control; Automatic frequency control; Automatic testing; Control systems; Fires; Software maintenance; Software testing; Software tools; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON Proceedings, 2001. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference

Conference_Location

Valley Forge, PA

ISSN

1080-7225

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7094-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2001.948963

Filename

948963