Every embedded software development process will have a process through the same steps. The requirements will be collected, the system is designed, and finally, the code is written. Testing is last but not least an important process of development.
Embedded software is essential under the scenarios below:
In every kind of engineering in any other field, testing is called to be the fundamental part of development. Here the engineers see testing as one of the most essential functions. In software development, when it is equally important as in any other industry, writing tests is frequently viewed as a waste of time by the clients.
It is used:
-To find the bugs in the software
-To reduce the risk
-To reduce the development and maintenance costs
-To improve performance
-To improve UI user Interface
The important embedded testing tools are
Embedded testing topics are more common in application software testing. The comparison of application validation and embedded system testing methods reveals some important variations between the two methodologies. Embedded developers often have access to hardware-based embedded software testing tools that are generally not used in app development and testing of applications.
The different tools are
- Tessy
Tessy, created by the Hitex development tool, is a big player in the embedded software testing development tools market. Tessy can test code written in C and C++ in the embedded environment. Version verification with multiple standards is one of its major applications. Test engineers use it to configure and execute automated tests and easily generate test reports. Tessy includes the classification Tree Method used for test specification. The support of HTML, word, and also excel test documentation comes in handy.
- Test Plant
EggPlant tools created by TestPlant are designed to work with non-standard software that cannot be installed on test systems. EggPlant covers a wide range of tasks which includes functional and performance testing. EggPlant tools do tasks on the stack with other tools perfectly, which is very useful when trying to adapt it for teams that already have a determined toolset. Even with no code being installed on the server, Eggplant can be used to run the tests. Not being dependent on the underlying code when running with nonstandard technology is eggPlant’s strong side. Eggplant will run virtually any system. The tool also takes manual direction during test execution. The advantage of manual interaction, testers can use eggplant whereas most of the automated tools are of no use due to the extreme complexity of features.
- Parasoft
Para soft DTP is a useful automation tool for teams that use continuous development strategy in the IDE or may be on target for testing embedded software. In any embedded testing environment, the tool can be used. It provides automatic reports at the component level. Parasoft DTP will include tools to perform static analysis, code reviews, code coverage analysis, and even traceability. The tool captures results based on open-source testing frameworks.
Parasoft consists of a general trend of providing preconfigured industry and regulatory-specific settings and standards for code compliance purposes. Parasoft templates will be fully customizable to meet the end user’s needs. Having the custom tool helps build on traceability and other tracking features that are required for verification for critical systems.
- Klockwork
Klockwork insights will provide a popular static testing tool for embedded software development. It will automatically recognize bugs in the code and flaws in the security systems. Security issues in applications will leave many holes for attack intact that will result in terrible consequences from the minor overloading of the application to complete shutdown. This tool supports integration and testing of the application on the component level. Klockwork insight includes a built-in system for the following standards: CWE, CWE/SANS, etc.
Questions
- What are embedded testing tools?
- Explain the Para soft tool.
