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Bastion Software Quality Assurance Support Adds to NASA Software of the Year Recognition at the Ames Research Center (ARC)
ARC Center Director, Pete Worden, recently congratulated the NASA Kepler Science Operations Center (SOC) team on receiving the 2010 NASA Software of the Year Award. Worden said, “I am absolutely delighted that the NASA Kepler SOC team has been honored with this prestigious award.” Bastion’s senior software quality assurance experts participated in software review boards and milestone reviews by providing guidance and review board materials. We also provided support to software testing, including post-test reporting so that defects were quickly reported and corrected. As part of our comprehensive support, engineers reviewed software design documents to ensure alignment with the code, and monitored the Mission Operation Center and Data Management Center problem reports and review release packages. The SOC Science Pipeline software system is a suite of custom-designed tools for analyzing transit photometry data for the Kepler Mission, the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of other stars—the region in a planetary system where liquid water can exist on the surface of an orbiting planet. On June 15, 2010, the Kepler Mission released data that could double the amount of known planets outside of the Solar System. Of the 165,000 stars that the Kepler Mission has been monitoring for planetary transits, approximately 750 of them thus far reveal planetary candidates. All of these discoveries were made possible by the software designed and implemented by the Kepler SOC team. | ||||||||||||
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