CASS family TPS Support toolset

Migration, maintenance and regression of more than three hundred (300) Test Program Set (TPS) to support all existing (i.e., Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) and Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Automated Support System (RTCASS)) and future (e.g., electronic Consolidated Automated Support System (eCASS)) CASS Family Automated Test Equipment (ATE) members can be an overwhelming task that requires compilation and build of source, translation, data transfer and data validation. CASS family automation tools can help TPS developers create and execute from Personal Computer (PC) environment CASS Virtual Address extension (VAX) Digital Command Line (DCL) scripting files without physically being on an ATE station; make Magneto-Optical (MO) disks (without user intervention) from VAX backup save set files; make automated Version Description Document (VDD) reports at Operational Test Program Set (OTPS) level; identify and fix corrupted Master Test Program Set Index (MTPSI) files; identify corrupted CASS Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems (ATLAS) files; identify missing CASS files (ATLAS source ATLAS lookup, graphics, backup save set, Digital Test Language, Digital Automated Test Program Generation (DATPG), shutdown, data, subassembly and Functional Extension Program); validate and create Automated Test System (ATS) Source Data Repository (ASDR) directory structure; create file list inventories for Configuration Management (CM) and Quality Assurance (QA); have a visual representation of the MTPSI card; and provide support for the Next Generation Operations Management Software (NxOMS) communication. This paper will demonstrate improvements from our previous suite of automation tools, before and after figures showing tools benefits, and faced hardware challenges.