{"title":"System models effect on test integration cost","authors":"H. Pritchett","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2011.6058775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2011.6058775","url":null,"abstract":"Models and paradigms imposed by test development and support applications impact test program integration costs. One major cost component of test development and test rehost efforts is integration. The test system representations engaged to develop and design test applications are a primary factor that drives how much engineering effort is expended during integration. Achieving test platform independence for test applications has been a high priority and ongoing focus for the test community. Test platform independence has a distinct impact on, and a close relationship to, test integration. Much of the effort spent on platform independence thus far has been involved with how to specify test requirements and test programs so that they do not, either directly or indirectly, demand specific test platform resources or implementations. Even with strict adherence to guidelines meant to maximize platform agnostics, significant effort is still required to adjust test program software during integration to accommodate test system, test software, and test adapter characteristics that were not anticipated or compensated for. Typical integration efforts involve altering parametric values used to invoke source instrumentation, imposing test limits, defining test timing, and other test program aspects. Although many of these test program aspects are the same as those used to provide platform independence, they must be altered to accommodate specific test systems during integration. This apparent paradox where platform-independent information must be altered to accommodate specific platforms is one consequence that can be explained by evaluating the system models and paradigms used in test development and test architectures that affect integration efforts.","PeriodicalId":110721,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132605570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demonstrating the capabilities of IEEE SIMICA standards in support of the DoD ATS Framework in a net-centric maintenance environment","authors":"M. Modi, J. Stanco","doi":"10.1109/MIM.2012.6263983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MIM.2012.6263983","url":null,"abstract":"A family of standards, Software Interface for Maintenance Information Collection and Analysis (SIMICA), that meets the needs and objectives of the ATS Framework Working Group's [1] Maintenance Test Data and Services requirement has been developed by the Diagnostic Maintenance Committee (DMC) of IEEE SCC20. SIMICA is an implementation independent specification for a software interface between information systems that contain diagnosis and maintenance data. The SIMICA standard [2] addresses the collection, exchange, and analysis of the data. Two approved trial use standards were the focus of the Phase III demonstration that took place at AUTOTESTCON in 2010. This demonstration showed the utilization of these standards in the documentation of the maintenance actions associated with the removal, repair, and replacement of system components required to maintain / support an operational system and the test results that allows for the recording of the test execution and observations. This paper outlines the processes and the application of the standards required to share information in a net-centric environment and demonstrates this capability.","PeriodicalId":110721,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133848794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}