TDMS: test data management system for aviation software

Abstract

Quality assurance and testing phase is one of the most crucial phases in the life cycle of software. Most software, dealing with the critical aspects of aviation, is subjected to intense testing. This frequently results in generation of enormous, unorganized, raw data files. This data have to be processed and analyzed further to get a meaningful insight into potential problem areas. In this paper, we present the results of our study on designing and implementing a test management system specifically for testing aviation software. It has three major contributions. Firstly, we present a survey of existing work. Secondly, we discuss the design for a test data management system, TDMS. Finally, we discuss some implementation issues encountered during the TDMS development.