USING RULE-BASED ENGINE TO SUPPORT TEST VALIDATION MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS

Valentina Accili, Giovanni Cantone, Christian Di Biagio, Guido Pennella, Fabrizio Gori

2007

Abstract

Testing and validating software components in distributed architecture environments are critical activities for our reference company, where those activities have been performed in a non-automatic way up to now, so spending time and human resources. As a consequence, we were charged to design and construct a flexible system, the Automated Test Manager (ATM), for the automatic software testing and automatic validation of test results. In this paper we focus on the subsystem ATM-Console that handles the validation aspect of the ATM system. This subsystem reuses an Open Source Rule-based Engine, which is able to meet our purposes. Based on results from a case study, the paper reports that introducing the ATM-Console in field could very significantly improve the efficiency of test validation.

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Accili V., Cantone G., Di Biagio C., Pennella G. and Gori F. (2007). USING RULE-BASED ENGINE TO SUPPORT TEST VALIDATION MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-05-0, pages 136-143. DOI: 10.5220/0001349901360143


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Valentina Accili and Giovanni Cantone and Christian Di Biagio and Guido Pennella and Fabrizio Gori},
title={USING RULE-BASED ENGINE TO SUPPORT TEST VALIDATION MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={136-143},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001349901360143},
isbn={978-989-8111-05-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - USING RULE-BASED ENGINE TO SUPPORT TEST VALIDATION MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-05-0
AU - Accili V.
AU - Cantone G.
AU - Di Biagio C.
AU - Pennella G.
AU - Gori F.
PY - 2007
SP - 136
EP - 143
DO - 10.5220/0001349901360143