Use of Automated Testing to Facilitate Affordable Design of Military Systems

Abstract

The Naval Testing Challenge Infinity is a Big Place. Size and Complexity: The environment is harsh and boundless. There are hundreds of systems on warships. Huge state spaces and many system configurations. Risks: Lives are at stake. Participants rely on simultaneous correct execution. All systems/variants must interoperate seamlessly. Software vulnerabilities can be deliberately placed. Statistically invisible: enormous amount of room to hide back doors. Software can be compromised at runtime Injected faults not present in the version under test, need runtime monitoring. Testing is necessarily sparse relative to the entire space: Exhaustive testing is physically and economically impossible.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA625060

Entities

People

  • B. Womble
  • Craig J. Johnson
  • P. Van Benthem
  • V. Berzins

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Computer Programs
  • Cyberattacks
  • Debugging
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Power Supplies
  • Programming Languages
  • Reliability
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Software Testing
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Sets
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space