ATAC - Advanced Test Automation for Complex Software-Intensive Systems

Purpose and goal

The goal of the project was to improve, combine and create tools and methods for automated testing of complex software-intensive systems. While existing tools where improved as well as adapted to the inputs from the project, a complete line of new software tools for testing and fault injection where invented and developed to a product level. Integration with existing development environments is currently under way and will be added to coming releases of software products. The current release of the CCSimTech suite includes all new tools and improvements from the ATAC project.

Results and expected effects

The ATAC project was expected to increase sales of software licenses, service sales and an increase of the software development workforce. During the course of the project, a significant increase of sold licenses (using a new and improved license model) could be seen. No higher service sales could be achieved, still the amount of service sales has stabilized which can be related to the ATAC project. The overall workforce in the company in the software development department did not increase during the project, still the number of developers working with the CCSimTech suite has increased.

Approach and implementation

The project contained three different goals: 1. Improvement of the CCSimTech suite, which as achieved to the full extend, leading to a new and much improved product. 2. A railways case study was performed, with CCSimTech taking a central role. This effort did lead to further development goals as well as a significantly heightened number of sold licenses. 3. The collaboration with academic partners (MDH, SICS) did lead to a high number of inputs to the development, as well as possible future combined efforts.

External links

ATAC Homepage