ESA Open Invitation to Tender AO10454
Open Date: 15/12/2020
Closing Date: 12/02/2021 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 20.112.19
Prog. Ref.: GSTP Element 1 Dev
Budget Ref.: E/0904-611 – GSTP Element 1 Dev
Special Prov.: DE
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 200-500 KEURO
Products: Ground Segment / Mission Operations / Mission Control / Engineering Support (GS S/W dev. and maintenance, …)
Technology Domains: Space System Software / Advanced Software Technologies / Advanced Software Development Methods and Tools
Establishment: ESOC
Directorate: Directorate of Operations
Department: Ground Systems Eng. & Innovation Dept.
Division: Mission Ops. Data Systems Division
Contract Officer: Rodriguez Perulero, Marta
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 15/12/2020
Update Reason: Tender issue

Objectives: The objectives of this activity are: – To develop a framework to support the exchange of automated tests and automatedsequences compatible with testing tools commonly used by the European aerospace industry. A key enabler will be the OTX standard (ISO 13209) – To define procedures and processes to operate the framework in an optimal manner Description: Large aerospace projects require the collaboration from many partners, which often use their own development tools and frameworks. The validation of such projects relies heavily on test automation to increase the quality and reduce the costs. Unfortunately, the automated tests developed byeach partner typically only address their specific activity and rely on specific tool. Over the past few years, several frameworksto support the automated testing and validation of the different parts of a space project have been produced and deployed. Due to thehighly specific nature of the aerospace solutions, these frameworks sets typically consist of purposed-made software that often builds on top of commercial and open source tools.