The growing complexity of device software is creating a ripple effect across development teams in all phases of the development life cycle. The number of lines of code being developed for any given device is doubling every two years. And the feature set being built into new devices designed to run on advanced technologies such as multiprocessing are making application code harder to debug and even more error-prone. At the same time, globalization and market forces have created an environment where dispersed development teams must find new ways to collaborate and gain efficiencies that enable them to deliver devices to market faster, with more features and at higher quality levels than ever before.

To help development teams overcome these challenges, Wind River offers a device software testing solution for developers and test engineers who are tasked with ensuring the delivery of higher-quality products to market. Wind River Test Management is a scalable, distributed testing framework that links device software development and QA teams in an intelligent, collaborative workflow. It enables teams to efficiently deploy tests, perform fact-based analysis, and rapidly resolve issues encountered throughout the testing phase. This effectively leads to streamlining the testing effort and creating a repeatable process that reduces risk.

What Is Test Management?

Wind River Test Management enables SQA engineers and developers to do the following:

• Test and detect more software defects earlier
• Resolve defects quicker
• Track project progress and manage device resources effectively
• Extend defect isolation and resolution process to deployed products

Wind River Test Management: A comprehensive device software test system that streamlines the workflow between developers and test engineers through an automated process of dynamic testing, diagnosing, and resolving defects in application software

How Test Management Works

Wind River Test Management reduces the time spent by developers to isolate, recreate, diagnose, and resolve defects found in device software.

• Test:Efficiently develop tests for functionality, performance, and coverage
• Automate:Automatically load embedded software and deploy test suites
• Diagnose:Analyze diagnostic data to isolate the root cause of intermittent bugs, lockups, and crashes
• Resolve:Apply patches to devices instantly without rebuilding, saving valuable time for the QA team

QA teams using Wind River Test Management can run automated scrīpts for code coverage and performance testing, as well as other test scrīpts developed for specific project needs. Test scrīpts help identify potential problems in the code. When a defect is reported by the QA team, developers have immediate access to log files and core files from the test, which allow easy replication of faults in a developer's own environment. Developers can then usesensorpointsto dynamically instrument running functions without rebuilding or restarting the application, which speeds time-to-defect isolation and diagnosis. These sensorpoints are selectively applied as needed and can be stored in a library to be used later and by the QA team. When resolving defects, the software allows developers to create patches through Wind River–specificpatchpointtechnology that can be applied without rebuilding the application, which greatly reduces resolution time.