Software Defined Radio Automated Testing Solution

The product of this project – SCA-pass - will be an automated test platform for Tactical Communications Waveforms and Applications against the SCA v4.1 specification. It will be implemented as a modular, object-oriented architecture that allows separation of test description from the test execution implemented in Java and able to execute on both Windows and Linux platforms. SCA-Pass will be able to read in test requests in XML, analyze requests, generate and run testing scripts, invoke the particular waveform components on a tactical radio via either USB cable and/or Ethernet, analyze testing results, accept user inputs and provide testing results in a number of common formats (XML, CSV, HTML and ASCII text). SCA-Pass will be integrated with the SCAv4.1 Test Suite (STS) that is developed by the JTNC Test and Evaluation Laboratory. Additionally, SCA-Pass will be used as an independent component that will be easy to integrate with the testing tools used by commercial developers of SCA compliant applications. Due to its utilization of the semantic technologies, SCA-Pass, will be easy to adapt to the variability of the SCA requirements that may be expected in the near future, e.g., moving from SCAv4.1 to SCAv5, or even to the modifications of the requirements to include other standard architectures, e.g., FACE.