Development, Validation, and Demonstration of Technologies for the Health and Usage Monitoring Systems Airborne- and Ground-Based Automated Testing and System Functionality Partition

摘要

When applied to Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) software, automated testing and building environments have the potential to significantly reduce development costs by improving quality and adding automation to portions of the software certification/recertification process. This report relates those technologies to HUMS in two ways: (1) by describing the benefits of automated testing, and how they apply to HUMS and (2) by recommending processes, environments, and function partitioning related to automated testing. Both ways are backed by GE Aviations own experiences in applying automated testing to HUMS on the Bell/Augusta Aerospace 609 Tiltrotor Aircraft BA609 HUMS program and by a demonstration project that went through the tool qualification of an automated testing framework. This report investigates and summarizes current tools and the latest techniques and methods available to assist the automated building and testing of HUMS software. The results of an industry survey included an evaluation of how the software industry typically employs these tools and their approaches to integrating the tools into a usable environment. The report summarizes the current technology level of the research and makes recommendations for additional research.