Minimizing lifecycle cost of ATS solutions through COTS software design

Author

Neag, I.A.

Author_Institution

TYX Corp., Reston, VA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

22-25 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

133

Abstract

This paper identifies the design features of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software that impact the lifecycle costs of automatic test systems (ATSs) and provides a set of design guidelines. It demonstrates that the architecture of COTS software must be modular, based on correct functional allocation, should possess distribution capabilities and contain open interfaces that are backwards compatible. In the case of COTS development tools, the programmatic interface should be simple, extensible and enforced to the maximum extent in the development environment.

Keywords

automatic test software; distributed programming; life cycle costing; open systems; software architecture; software tools; ATS; COTS software design; automatic test systems; backwards compatible open interfaces; commercial off-the-shelf software; distributed software; functional allocation; lifecycle cost minimization; modular software architecture; programmatic interface; software development tools; Application software; Automatic testing; Computer architecture; Costs; Guidelines; Hardware; Software architecture; Software design; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON 2003. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Proceedings

ISSN

1080-7725

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7837-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2003.1243566

Filename

1243566