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Mars Science Laboratory Flight Software Boot Robustness Testing Project ReportOn the surface of Mars, the Mars Science Laboratory will boot up its flight computers every morning, having charged the batteries through the night. This boot process is complicated, critical, and affected by numerous hardware states that can be difficult to test. The hardware test beds do not facilitate testing a long duration of back-to-back unmanned automated tests, and although the software simulation has provided the necessary functionality and fidelity for this boot testing, there has not been support for the full flexibility necessary for this task. Therefore to perform this testing a framework has been build around the software simulation that supports running automated tests loading a variety of starting configurations for software and hardware states. This implementation has been tested against the nominal cases to validate the methodology, and support for configuring off-nominal cases is ongoing. The implication of this testing is that the introduction of input configurations that have yet proved difficult to test may reveal boot scenarios worth higher fidelity investigation, and in other cases increase confidence in the robustness of the flight software boot process.
Document ID
20150006059
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Other
External Source(s)
Authors
Roth, Brian
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
April 22, 2015
Publication Date
August 15, 2011
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
flight software (FSW)
project life cycle

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