DDG and the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) announced that they will launch DRONA. DRONA is a requirements management system that will change the way companies across the world build software products and features. The project is supported with funding from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR).
DRONA is based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and will help companies build better products faster, and minimise the risk of costly delays. Unlike other products on the market that cater to just a few stages of the software development process, DRONA provides an end-to-end solution for software design, implementation, testing and validation. It acts as a plug-in to Enterprise Architect, a widely used and acclaimed tool amongst software teams. SnT had been researching the technology behind DRONA for three years with external partners, and are now ready to share it beyond their industry partners.
Currently, close to 50% of delays on software projects (e.g. software development, process adjustments, building new features, etc.) are caused by inadequate requirements, which impact system development and deployment. “SnT scientists and engineers have developed a cutting-edge AI interface to address this critical problem,” explains Prof. Lionel Briand, principal investigator of the project.
DRONA offers modelling and requirements authoring support, coupled with automated reconciliation between the two – so that product and business development managers can accelerate building the vision of the product, with minimal risk of missing key details. It provides automated deliverables generation – so that product owners can build actionable roadmaps in a fraction of the time compared with existing technologies. Last, but not least, DRONA auto-generates the test plans for the features built automatically, saving business managers and engineers hundreds of hours over the course of a project.
DDG AG will assist SnT in developing a meaningful commercialisation and go-to-market strategy for their technology, to target the European market.