Mars Science Laboratory Workstation Test Set

The Mars Science Laboratory developed the Workstation TestSet (WSTS) is a computer program that enables flight software development on virtual MSL avionics. The WSTS is the non-real-time flight avionics simulator that is designed to be completely software-based and run on a workstation class Linux PC. This provides flight software developers with their own virtual avionics testbed and allows device-level and functional software testing. The WSTS has successfully off-loaded many flight software development activities from the project testbeds. Flight software developers can now instantiate as many virtual testbeds as there are available computer resources and also enables device level fault injections that are difficult to achieve on real avionics testbeds.