Projects

The CoRe project attempts to improve some of the known shortcomings of current working position development.
It views the development process in terms of: the managed collaboration of a number of experts; traceable Functional and HMI requirements which form the basis for evaluation and re-use; and a system development process based on the use and extension of industry standard methods (e.g. UML). The process seeks to provide traceability of requirements and design rationale through to structured evaluations, simultaneous maintenance of coherent Functional and Component views of the system, document management and generation (inc. hypertext), and support for re-use and consolidation, especially of requirements.
The methods are used to develop a platform, which is simultaneously a 'demonstration of concept' and the tool for the evaluation of HMI requirements and solutions for an en-route controller working position with complete basic functionality.

Deep Blue role

Deep Blue was involved to produce a set of documents to support the preparation of a handbook or training module on the issues of evaluation. This set of documents:

• reviewed the current literature in HMI evaluation and literature related to evaluation of the ATM Controller working position;
• made a critical analysis of the review material highlighting different techniques of evaluation related to different phases of CWP development;
• studied the applicability within the CoRe project on the basis of the testing decomposition and of the derivation of testing criteria from the requirements proposed in that project;
• identified appropriate recommendations for the definition and implementation of the evaluation process and for the identification of possible improvements as a consequence of the evaluation.

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