Automated quality tracking

Abstract

This paper describes an initial approach in providing an automated method of tracking the progress of Functional Verification testing against a Defect Removal Model. The automated tracking package comprises the following general elements: 1. A controlling routine which inputs data from a Driver Plan file and a PTR summary file, and computes plotting information which it passes to a graphical display routine for plotting. 2. Subsidiary routines to extract a raw PTR summary from the database for the product being tracked. 3. Subsidiary routines to refine this summary into, in the example given, a list of FV PTRs. 4. A flat file Driver Plan. 5. Files giving the chart format and data data definition files which the graphical display manager uses to plot the chart.