The last June 22-23th 2016 GTD has presented in the 3th IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace in Firenze the paper “Test Automatization for Critical Space Software” to the international community.GTD leads a new functional test approach for critical on-board SW based in 6 single rules: All the produced data generated for the SW under test to be stored / analyse. It means no dependency of the directly expected SW behaviour. High degree of automatization. Separation of test logic and implementation. The test cases shall use configuration files, in order to reduce the impacts for the Software requirements. Whether is possible a test case shall be platform independent. It means: a reduction of the test bench / platform dependencies a possible re-use for other projects Test case implementation by means of a test procedure language allowing a straightforward implementation of the test case using a more test-based view (similar to the PLUTO language)These rules have been consolidated during the MTG (Meteosat Third Generation) V&V activities, where GTD has a key role leading these activities.Together with German and Italian companies GTD has developed a testing framework based in the functional test approach presented. This first implementation of the proposed “new functional test approach” is currently used for the TS, RB, and AIT testing teams in order to test the MTG on board SW under development. All the process have been already review and accepted by TAS-F and ESA.OHB already announced that TSVF will be used for the future projects (SARA, ELECTRA, GALILEO 2th …) as main tool for implementation and conduction of the V&V test cases. Functional and performance testing of critical Space Software is a very complex task since demanding quality requirements have to be fulfilled.Several institutions including ESA already express their interest in collaborate together with GTD to define test cases logs standards and improve the test and operations procedure language (eg. PLUTO).GTD has a large and consolidated experience designing, implementing, and testing critical on board SW. These new alliance will give the opportunity to GTD to be an important player on the new generation of testing tools.
