Autonomy Requirements Tester (ART): Assisting Clear Communications among Stakeholders

摘要

Autonomy Requirements Tester (ART) is a software tool designed and prototyped in a NASA Phase IrnSmall Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project to address the difficulties of testing autonomyrnrequirements. It supports clear communications among engineers with different by translatingrnrequirements terms into software behavioral expectations, which can be used to drive test specifications andrnthe reporting of test results. Also, because it helps translate the requirements into software behavior terms,rnit addresses some of the difficulties of testing autonomy requirements. Innovations in ART include a clearrnlinking of requirements, expected software behavior, test plans, and test results. They also include thernimmersion of the Test Runner portion of the ART design within the Core Flight System (cFS) architecture,rnso that the application under test can be tested as it is intended to fly, even before the remainder of thernflight software has been developed. ART also includes a reusable test specification for regression testingrnand employs a test plan template to ease the specification of multiple, detailed test plans for similarlyrnformatted autonomy requirements.