Orion and its Cockpit Displays
- NASA’s Orion spacecraft is built to take humans to Mars effectively and safely.
- To monitor spaceflight status and provide instructions to crew, cockpit has new software embedded digital displays to replace hundreds of pounds of paper documentations.
- Digital displays have three glass screens to show graphical objects that are manipulated on screen using peripheral switches such as edge keys and knobs.
Goal
- Verify the display software using an automation tool such as EggPlant Functional
- Develop a framework to allow for repeatability and consistency of verification of different display items
What is EggPlant?
- Verification Software that utilizes image recognition
- Automation capabilities through simulation of user inputs
-Clicks
-Keyboard Keystrokes
- User-like testing method
-Recognition of object on screen followed by a click or keystroke
- Thorough and long duration tests through automation
- Knowledge of background code or internal processes not needed