(openPR) Berlin, Germany – January 19, 2016. - Also this year, PikeTec will be one of the 900 exhibitors at the international fair specialized on embedded technologies in Nuremberg. From 23rd to 25th February, the fair provides a platform for professional visitors to obtain information about current research and developments in the field of embedded technologies.
“Over the past year, we’ve especially worked at high pressure on the development of intelligent mechanisms for automated test case generation”, says Dr. Jens Lüdemann, managing director at PikeTec. “We’re proud that our developer team under the direction of Dr. Benjamin Wilmes has managed to develop a software that is capable of analyzing MATLAB/Simulink and TargetLink models. Following the analysis, this software is able to generate the smallest amount of test cases necessary to ensure a maximum of structural model coverage.” The software named TASMO, an acronym for “Testing via Automated Search for Models”, is part of the testing tool “Time Partition Testing” (TPT). “It was also important for us, to make the tool intuitive to use”, emphasizes Dr. Benjamin Wilmes.
Another novelty is the automated test case generation from equivalence classes. “The advantage of the automated generation lies in the fact that the tester can rest assured to cover all equivalence classes with his tests. And of course, automated test case generation saves time and therefore spares money”, Dr. Lüdemann underlines.
Also in TPT-8, a recording function was implemented in the Dashboard as a realization of customer wishes. The user can from now on record interactions with the system under test via the Dashboard, and analyze the recording and reuse it as test case. The Dashboard is a graphical control center that is built in TPT by the user with the help of extensively configurable graphical elements that are connected to the system to be tested. Building and using the Dashboard is quite intuitive.
PikeTec can also demonstrate a new way to evaluate measurement data with TPT. “With the so-called “Assessment Platform”, implemented in TPT-8, users can assess measurement data without the need to set up test cases. The data is just imported into TPT and assessed by user configured evaluation rules. With the "Assessment Platform", the scope of TPT has been significantly extended", highlights Dr. Lüdemann.
“We are looking forward presenting TPT to interested people from all business sectors”, Dr. Lüdemann smilingly says. PikeTec will be at hall 4 at the stand 526.
About “Time Partition Testing” (TPT)
The testing tool “Time Partition Testing” (TPT) is developed by PikeTec. It can be used according to many safety standards and in all software development phases (MiL, SiL, PiL, HiL) in the field of embedded control and regulation systems. TPT can be connected to a lot of external test environments. Application areas: set up test cases, execute test cases, and evaluate test cases and measurement data.
