"Quality and Life" № 1(33) 2022. p. 23-30

B.V. Boytsov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Scientific Supervisor, Department 104 «Technological Design and Quality Management», Moscow Aviation Institute (NRU); First Vice-President, Academy of Quality Problems; Moscow

 

O.V. Minakova, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Voronezh State Technical University; Voronezh

 

I.V. Potsebneva, Ph.D., Voronezh State Technical University; Voronezh

 

e-mail: ipocebneva@vgasu.vrn.ru

 

The article presents the results of the development of a software tool to manage the construction of the assessment tools fund by architectural design with four-level model C4 (S. Brown). The implementation of the tool software is based on Visual Studio Code, with a step-by-step description of the design in UML. The basic microkernel architecture of the selected infrastructure platform allows extending functionality to the target level using individual heterogeneous software modules. The necessary functionality was achieved by implementing additional software modules. The approach presented shows the benefits of creating problem-oriented systems by moving the system architecture to a simple and well-documented software system that supports APIs for plug-ins. The quality assessment of the developed software confirmed its functionality, reliability and portability, but the documentation of extension modules should be standardized to achieve greater ease of use.

 

Keywords: program development, microkernel architecture, gift file, plugin.

 

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