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Wind River unveils test automation framework


By P. J. Connolly
August 1, 2008 — 
Testing is rarely fun and often monotonous. But to ensure that a test effort is checking the right things, one must be increasingly detail-focused, and considering the use of test automation tools is one way to sharpen that focus.

Wind River Systems sees test automation as an invaluable part of its software environment, and in the hopes of spurring its adoption, launched on July 16 Wind River Test Management, a distributed testing framework.

The company expects to release Test Management by the end of September in a package that includes planning facilities, a test execution framework and automatic data collection. Pricing for Test Management was not disclosed.

Wind River said in the framework’s announcement that it would offer the Test Management features as an integration with the Eclipse-based Wind River Workbench, with the aim of supporting devices that run the company’s Linux runtime platform as well as the VxWorks real-time operating system.

Wind River is jumping on the test automation bandwagon as the market expands; figures from researchers at Venture Development indicate that the market for test automation was expected to grow by 12% annually between 2006 and 2009. A combination of factors are at play, according to Venture Development: The adoption of multicore processors and increasingly complex system designs is met on the user side of the equation by expanding consumer expectation and growing time-to-market pressures.

As Chris Rommel, an analyst with Venture Development, explained in a prepared statement: “The demands for increased functionality are driving the volume and complexity of code that needs to be developed and tested, which is adding more pressure to budget constraints and shrinking product development cycles.”
 
A recent survey of embedded systems developers conducted by VDC found that those who have adopted test automation say that a greater percentage of their projects were completed on or ahead of deadline, when compared to coders who lack automated test efforts.

Wind River Test Management will also include a diagnostic interface intended to allow test and development engineers to reduce the chance of project holdups by shortening the time to resolve defects. The company says that the figures measuring performance and covering dynamic code are collected without having to install special test harnesses or build special versions of software under test. Test Management will also include collaboration tools under the name of Virtual Lab Management, which will help development and QA teams manage test boards and share access to them, and assist in the provisioning of new software builds.


Related Search Term(s): Embedded development, testing, Wind River


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