Off-line tools for improved operational software management

Satellite operations require powerful operational software facilities due to the intrinsic complexity associated to those activities. Its configuration and maintenance is a major issue, having those activities a great importance in the reliability, and at the end, on the satellite operations. Based on this, and seeing the experience on real operational systems, GMV has decided to develop certain tools, focusART and CONFMAN, oriented to help the validation and configuration management, and improving thereby the level of quality on the final software facility. Both focusART and CONFMAN have been operationally adopted. This paper describes the technical capabilities of the adopted tools and how those tools have been integrated in the operational process