Automation Hooks Architecture for Flexible Test Orchestration - concept development and validation

Author

Lansdowne, Chatwin A. ; Maclean, John R. ; Winton, Christopher E. ; McCartney, Patrick A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Aeronaut. & Space Adm., Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

12-15 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

197

Lastpage

202

Abstract

The Automation Hooks Architecture Trade Study for Flexible Test Orchestration sought a standardized data-driven alternative to conventional automated test programming interfaces. The study recommended composing the interface using multicast DNS (mDNS/SD) service discovery, Representational State Transfer (Restful) Web Services, and Automatic Test Markup Language (ATML). We describe additional efforts to rapidly mature the Automation Hooks Architecture candidate interface definition by validating it in a broad spectrum of applications. These activities have allowed us to further refine our concepts and provide observations directed toward objectives of economy, scalability, versatility, performance, severability, maintainability, scriptability and others.

Keywords

Web services; automatic test software; program testing; software maintenance; software reusability; architecture candidate interface definition; automated test programming interfaces; automatic test markup language; automation hooks architecture trade; flexible test orchestration; maintainability; multicast DNS service discovery; representational state transfer Web services; scriptability; Aerospace electronics; Automation; Computer architecture; Hardware; Monitoring; NASA; Software; Software management; Software reusability; Software standards; Test equipment; Test facilities; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1088-7725

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9362-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2011.6058728

Filename

6058728