Experimentation of new testing strategies

Project Information

EXOTEST

Grant agreement ID: FP4_24266

Project closed

Start date 15 April 1997

End date 14 April 1999

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 € 266 000,00

EU contribution € 266 000,00

Coordinated by

Not Available

Objective

Dassault Electronique manufactures systems which are more and more elaborated. They require correction and reliability from integrated software. Bearing this in mind, testing strategy and software validation performance is a key to the success of these projects.

The better control of the testing process we expect to draw from this experiment, will help us to reduce our development lead-times and costs, to improve our control over the risk management and to reduce our maintenance costs and the operating costs for our customers.

THE EXPERIMENT

To achieve these objectives, we will evaluate the potential contribution of statistical techniques in each and every aspect of the development cycle, from the unit tests to the acceptance test. These techniques, combined with our test tools (DEVISOR and SYLVIE) and methods, are: code quality measurement (using M-Square), statistical testing and software reliability modelling (using M-élopée).

The experiment will be performed on the embedded software of electronic equipment for commercial aircraft, developed by a five-person team over a two-year period. The main idea is to set up a test team using new testing strategies in addition to the project team.

EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE

Besides the above objectives, the quantification of our software reliability will certainly play a great part in the motivation of the technical teams, by offering them measurable targets and the direct feedback of their work results. Furthermore, it will also give concrete elements to decision-makers.

If these techniques are demonstrated to be powerful, they will be transferred to our software development process at large.

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.

• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › aircraft
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software › software development
• social sciences › sociology › governance › crisis management

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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

Not Available

• EU contribution: No data
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Participants (1)

Dassault Electronique

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Quai Marcel Dassault 55 ; 92214 Saint-Cloud
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