Final Inspection for Design Pattern Homologation Using a Real Time Embedded Software in a Production Line

This paper summarizes a research process applied to final inspection (FI) and causal analysis for problems resolution (CAR) using a real time embedded software component in a production line. It uses C++ language in an IBM-rational rose real time (RRRT) environment. It tackles the creation of a consistent homologation process to eliminate componentspsila errors, imperfections, and defects even before design patternspsila publications in a library. Its major contribution is the construction of an FI artifact for a software component related to CAR. It proposes an industrial model for an FI process of design patternspsila homologation using an integrated computer aided software engineering environment (I-CASE-E). It considers a design pattern that was identified in a project, described, stored in a library, and successfully reused in another project. The use of rational unified process (RUP) has helped teams of undergrad and graduate students from the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica - ITA) to develop their components, during the second semester of 2007. The RUP utilization has provided a fertile scenario to create and apply design pattern concepts. At the end, different computer software components (CSC) were homologated with their attributes and generic methods allowing reusability.