Software Test: Structured and Efficient Embedded System Tests

This seminar focuses on tests that are usually performed by developers. Participants learn about relationships, dependencies and interactions of development and test process frameworks, aiming at efficient and effective testing. Static and dynamic test strategies are highlighted and executed in the scope of practical exercises. Test metrics provide the basis for decision-making regarding the strategy to be pursued as well as the definition of test end criteria. In addition, test-driven development is introduced as an example of design for testability. Several practical exercises on the host and evaluation target hardware underline the focus on software testing under real-life conditions.

Content
Objectives
Participants
Requirements

Motivation: The Significance of Software Test in Projects

Software Quality

Software standards and quality features

Software Requirements Analysis, Test Requirements Analysis

Test case related description of functional and non-functional requirements (QoS)

Test Planning, Test Plan

Development of a test strategy (based on requirements, risk, quality, ...)
Creating a test plan according to IEEE 829
Test effort, test duration, test resources, test staff
Defining the test target and test exit criteria
Program analysis metrics (McCabe, Halstead, LoC, ...)
Failure analysis, risk analysis

Test Specification

Test requirements analysis and test case specification according to IEEE 829
Determining test cases based on the defined strategy
Describing test cases (graphical, formal, tabular or as text)
Creating test scripts according to IEEE 829

Static Software Analysis

Manual: review, inspection, walkthrough
Automated

Whitebox Test at Module Level

Program flow oriented testing
Statement, branch, condition, MC/DC, path coverage
Data flow oriented testing

Blackbox Test at Module and System Test Level

Functionality, function point, requirements coverage
Equivalence class partitioning, boundary value analysis
Fault coverage (comparison with similar systems)
Error guessing, random test, state transition test
System behavior tests
Retest, regression test

Integration Strategies and Integration Test

Incremental, top down, bottom up, big bang
Test target oriented, process oriented, function oriented strategy
Hardest first
Input, output, interface coverage
Development of drivers and stubs

Test Automation

Test automation definitions and concepts
When is test automation useful?
Types and selection of test tools
Hardware-in-the-loop, HIL
Software-in-the-loop, SIL

Cost-efficient Testing

Test automation
Design for test
Model based testing

Test Analysis and Test Documentation

Test analysis metrics
Test exit criteria
Test documentation according to IEEE 829
Automated test analysis and test document creation

Exercises

Fault analysis
Code review (Fagan inspection)
Programming a test driver in C
Determining test data with CTE according to the classification tree method
Blackbox and whitebox tests with Tessy
Determining metrics with the tools cccc and CMT++
Information about further tools

CONTACT

Silke Bluhm
Phone +49 (0)89 450617-71

The price includes lunch,

drinks, training documentation and training certificate.

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2.050,00 €	4 days
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