7.4 Big Data Tooling and Usage Perspectives in the Airbus Helicopters Test Center

Abstract

In the past years, Airbus Group has been investing into Big Data by developing and setting up infrastructures and backends which have already been presented in various papers. The platform has now reached sufficient maturity to be usable for concrete work and while work is continuing on the backends to improve performance and features, the emphasis is gradually shifting towards end-user tools and operational use cases, among others in the testing domain. New possibilities are appearing, but it also requires some changes in mindsets as commonly used approaches and habits need to be challenged. This paper will discuss these aspects, focusing on tests performed during development and covering in particular: