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		| Paper: | 
		Automated Production of Test Data to Aid
 Integration of Gaia First Look Monitor Software | 
	 
	
		| Volume: | 
		461, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI | 
	 
	
		| Page: | 
		181 | 
	 
	
		| Authors: | 
		Cross, N.; Heyrovsky, A. | 
	 
	
	
		| Abstract: | 
		Gaia is an ESA cornerstone mission, expected to launch in 2013. 
 Parallaxes for 1 billion stars with up to 10 μas accuracy will be measured
 using Gaia. Data from Gaia will be processed by 3 pipelines: Initial Data
 Treatment First Look (IDT-FL), Astrometric Global Iterative Solution (AGIS) and
 Intermediate Data Update (IDU). IDT-FL runs daily, to process the incoming data
 and match them to the existing catalogue. FL does sanity checks on the IDT
 output and issues alerts for any problems.
 
 In this paper we describe the production of test data and and tests
 designed to help develop Detailed First Look Monitor (DFLM) code for FL. These
 diagnostic tests help to bridge the gap between simple JUnit tests and the full
 IDT-FL integration tests, by testing the complex setup and infrastructure of the
 DFLM diagnostics and analyses. | 
	 
	
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