The change control in aircraft testing

The paper has been intended to describe the essence of the change control in the aircraft testing, the change control being a component of the process of configuration management process. The concept of a systemic approach to the change control under the configuration management (CM) model has been presented. The essence of establishing the configuration of reference being the base for realization of tests has been indicated and necessity of control was justified. Decomposition of tests to objects of configuration has been created. The exemplary externals that have an effect on identified object of configuration have been described. It was assumed that the differences between real and supposed parameters of externals are the reason of changes to established configuration of testing. The algorithm of proceeding referred to implementation changes (initiating, description, estimation of the influence, taking a decision about implementation, messaging information to interested parties) has been proposed. The instruments for control of tests configuration has been presented. It was proved that efficient control of configuration could be an instrument for efficient realization of tests while changes appear. What has been proposed is a process of qualitative assessment of the change control as one of the most essential issues of the configuration management modelling in the aircraft testing.