ITC/USA 2009 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Fifth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 26-29, 2009 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Following-up on an ITC 2006 paper, "From RF to bits with Synthetic Beamforming", we follow the development and fielding of a Digital Beamforming (DBF) Antenna. This antenna, built for an airborne Telemetry application, supports 10 individual polarization-diverse beams and immediately converts RF to IF at the antenna element through a suite of LNBs. The IF is then digitized and all subsequent processing is performed through an array of 200+ FPGAs, including DBF, optimal combining, demodulation, and IF upconversion. We present our Model-Based Design approach, which allowed us to develop and test the system incrementally and rapidly, particularly during the transition from factory testing to flight operations, where several unexpected problems were discovered. Our software tool set enabled us to dissect the System behavior via post-mission replay, and our detailed simulations were instrumental in developing mitigation quickly. The System-level impacts and root causes of some of these issues are also discussed. We believe the flexibility of DBF and the modular software architecture were key in quickly mitigating many of these unforeseen real-world issues without hardware modification.

The objective of this project is to provide an overview of how to create a secure network test environment using virtual machines with Red Hat CentOS 7. Using virtual machines to create a secure network test environment simplify the workflow of testing several servers including network segmentation, network path redundancy, and traffic control using a firewall. This study suggests a set of guidelines for building a secure network test environment that includes a Domain Name Server (DNS), Web Server, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server, and a firewall. The documentation provided in this project is primarily useful for IT students looking to recreate a similar environment of their own and to practice special skills needed within their field of study.

<p>The research in wireless communications and in-vehicle computing systems has opened up new fields of applications for transportation systems. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) emerge as a contribution to the solution of providing safer and more efficient roads and to increase passenger safety. This thesis treats different issues that influence the performance of wireless vehicle communication systems and it proposes a general design procedure for the construction of a test environment for VANETs.</p><p>A comprehensive survey of the different parameters that affect the system performance in the field of wireless vehicle communications is provided. These parameters are then analysed and quantified to serve as guidelines when identifying and designing the different components of the test environment. One such component is a simulator that enables VANET performance evaluation and allows identification of bottlenecks in the network functionality. In addition, suggestions for a hardware platform and an operating system for the development of a suitable on-board test-bed for performance measurements are presented.</p><p>The design procedure of such a test environment is intended to be used by researchers and engineers working in the field of wireless communications and ad hoc networking with special regard to the automotive sector.</p>

<p>When restoring a test environment, the key to success is that the process is fast and automatic. The goal is to have as little user interaction as possible.</p><p>This master thesis evaluates solutions for handling the restoration of the test environments and investigates a couple of possible approaches. It turns out that the most effective way of solving the problem is to elaborate a customized software. The interface and workflow of this software is described in the thesis.</p><p>Testing of the new software is performed and the thesis ends with some conclusions regarding the new solution and proposals for future development.</p>

Fault management is a continuously demanded function in any kind of network management. Commonly it is carried out by a centralized entity on the network which correlates collected information into likely diagnoses of the current system states. We survey the use of active-on-demand-measurement, often called active probes, together with passive readings from the perspective of one single node. The solution is confined to the node and is isolated from the surrounding environment. The utility for this approach, to fault diagnosis, was found to depend on the environment in which the specific node was located within. Conclusively, the less environment knowledge, the more useful this solution presents. Consequently this approach to fault diagnosis offers limited opportunities in the test environment. However, greater prospects was found for this approach while located in a heterogeneous customer environment.

The research in wireless communications and in-vehicle computing systems has opened up new fields of applications for transportation systems. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) emerge as a contribution to the solution of providing safer and more efficient roads and to increase passenger safety. This thesis treats different issues that influence the performance of wireless vehicle communication systems and it proposes a general design procedure for the construction of a test environment for VANETs. A comprehensive survey of the different parameters that affect the system performance in the field of wireless vehicle communications is provided. These parameters are then analysed and quantified to serve as guidelines when identifying and designing the different components of the test environment. One such component is a simulator that enables VANET performance evaluation and allows identification of bottlenecks in the network functionality. In addition, suggestions for a hardware platform and an operating system for the development of a suitable on-board test-bed for performance measurements are presented. The design procedure of such a test environment is intended to be used by researchers and engineers working in the field of wireless communications and ad hoc networking with special regard to the automotive sector.

When restoring a test environment, the key to success is that the process is fast and automatic. The goal is to have as little user interaction as possible. This master thesis evaluates solutions for handling the restoration of the test environments and investigates a couple of possible approaches. It turns out that the most effective way of solving the problem is to elaborate a customized software. The interface and workflow of this software is described in the thesis. Testing of the new software is performed and the thesis ends with some conclusions regarding the new solution and proposals for future development.

Usage of information systems and technologies (IS/ICT) is almost necessary nowadays for all kind of organizations. These, that want it to be successful know, that it is necessary to pay attention to technology innovations and make sure about their quality. Quality of information system is equal of quality theirs single elements, which are created by linked software applications. Their development is currently guided by many different methodologies or instructions how to create them in the shortest time possible, as cheaply and with sufficient quality. This imaginary triangle forms the basis for the ongoing struggle for necessary compromise on one side or the other. Part of these development methodologies is in most cases a section which is dealing with testing. The results of development have to be checked before delivery to the customer and also on the client side is necessary to test quality of what he paid. Therefore, testing is very important, but still neglected article of software development. The main objective of this thesis is modification of testing methodology from Iveta Králová. Modified methodology was adapted for specific environment of small developement team with support of HP ALM software. Original methodology was intended only for system testing and ends in transmission to acceptance tests. Modified methodology goes beyond these boundaries and also covers this area. Partial aim is to enrich methodology on how to implement and manage test environments suitable for this type of operations. The main contribution of this work is the development of agile methodology that is specific for a particular type of operation and works with HP ALM.

This master’s thesis deals with the design and implementation of part of test environment for automatic testing of electronic control unit in the production. The electronic control unit is manufactured by UNIS, a.s. and is used as a control and power electronics for the hydraulic unit. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the development and automatic testing of electronics in the field of aerospace engineering. The practical part describes the proposed automatic test environment and implementation of testing software using hardware and software products by National Instruments. The main platforms used for software development are LabVIEW and TestStand. Created test environment is finally verified by testing several control units.

This thesis discusses software containers (Docker containers in particular) as a variant of server virtualization. Instead of virtualizing hardware, software containers rest on top of a single operating system instance and are much more efficient than hypervisors in system resource terms. Docker containers make it easy to package and ship applications, and guarantee that applications will always run the same, regardless of the environment they are running in. There is a whole range of use cases of containers, this work examines their usage in the field of software testing. The thesis proposes three main use case categories for running software systems in Docker containers. It introduces aspects for applications running in containers, which should give a better overview about an application setting within containers infrastructure. Subsequently, possible issues with testing software systems running inside Docker containers are discussed and the testing methods which address the presented issues are proposed. One proposed testing method was also used in the implementation of the framework for testing software running in Docker containers which was developed within this work.