Visualisation software testing automation

Project Information

VISTA

Grant agreement ID: 24153

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1997

End date 30 November 1998

Funded under

• Software Best Practice initiative within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost € 57 930,00

EU contribution € 57 930,00

Coordinated by

Netherlands Energy Research Foundation Ecn
Netherlands

Objective

Software testing presently takes typically 30-50% of the total cost of visualisation software development. Multi platform applications require more testing effort than single platform applications. The cost of testing can be reduced at least by a factor of two through the use of automated testing. There are direct effects from the faster execution of the test and the repeatability of the test. The quality of testing will improve through optimisation of the tests.

These advantages also enable a shorter time to market. A more rapid response to demands from the market can be given. Automated testing therefore will significantly improve the competitive power of ECN and thus is an important factor in achieving the above described business goals.

THE EXPERIMENT
The PIE concerns the introduction of automated testing tools to the testing of visualisation software. ECN develops visualisation software of various degrees of sophistication (from Computational Steering to GUI's) and extension (from single platform to multi platform, from single machine to client-server applications). The PIE is to that end coupled to the testing phases of the baseline project, which is the upgrade of a graphical editor and viewer of geometry models of nuclear systems, to be used in conjunction with a particular physics calculation programme.

EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The prime anticipated benefit is cost saving in the software testing phase by a factor of at least two. Additional benefits are reduction of the release time and time to market and compliance to ISO 9000.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• social sciences › sociology › industrial relations › automation
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software › software development
• natural sciences › mathematics › pure mathematics › geometry

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Programme(s)

• FP4-ESSI 2 - Software Best Practice initiative within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 1.28 - Process Improvement Experiments

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures

Coordinator

Netherlands Energy Research Foundation Ecn

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 1755 ZG Petten ; Netherlands
• Total cost: No data