Automated Test Program Set Analysis for Maintenance Data Metrics Generation

The overall objective of this topic is to develop a software toolset that provides an innovative capability to extract usage metrics from TPS source code and ATS log data, and to build companion TPS simulations for more refined analysis, applied to the CASS family of testers. The anticipated result of this proposed Phase I research effort is the development of the concept for parsing TPS source code and extracting metrics that leverages other sources of data, such as log data and UUT maintenance data. The tasks of the basic effort will have focused on defining the TPS source code processing and metrics extraction toolset and its required elements, defining the requirements for the different software components and data representations, development of initial prototypes of key components using sample data provided by the customer, and demonstration of the feasibility of the concept with the prototypes developed. The option effort will have extended the basic effort to implement a prototype integrated metrics extraction capability, where the focus of the research will have been on how the initial prototypes of the software components, data representations, and user interface can be integrated to demonstrate the concept feasibility of incorporating ATS log data in the metrics extraction process. The Phase I proof-of-concept demonstration will verify concepts and assumptions, validate the concept, and provide a reference for extending the metrics extraction toolset capabilities with additional functionality in Phase II, such as TPS simulation, to satisfy fully customer data processing and analysis requirements.