Title :
Automated maintenance of avionics software
Author :
Loyall, Joseph P. ; Mathisen, Susan A. ; Hurley, Pamela J. ; Williamson, James S.
Abstract :
Maintenance of avionics software is an increasing burden for the Air Force because of the growing size and complexity of software on aircraft. As software becomes larger and more complex, maintainers have more difficulty understanding and modifying it. The test burden and need for support hardware and software, which also must be maintained, also increases. TASC has developed a prototype tool that provides automated support for the avionics software maintenance process. The prototype improves the software maintainer´s understanding of an operational flight program and reduces the manual effort necessary to perform regression testing. It indicates the possible effects of a software modification, aids in test selection and creation, performs test execution and result checking, and measures test coverage
Keywords :
aerospace computing; military computing; software maintenance; Air Force; TASC; automated support; avionics software; avionics software maintenance; computational complexity of software; operational flight program; prototype; prototype tool; regression testing; software modification; test selection; Aerospace electronics; Hardware; Manuals; Military aircraft; Performance evaluation; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software performance; Software prototyping; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1993. NAECON 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE 1993 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1295-3
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1993.290964