End-to-end testing with NI LabVIEW and eggPlant Functional

End-to-end testing with LabVIEW and eggPlant

Antony Edwards, CTO, TestPlantNoah Reding, Principal Product Manager, NIGordon McKeown, Group Product Director, TestPlant

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Driving Factors for the Industry

Improved Vehicle Emissions and Fuel Efficiency

Improved Vehicle and Passenger

Safety

Additional Information and Entertainment

Increased Vehicle Performance

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10-20 defects produced per 1,000 lines of code*

6.5 Mil

Commercial Aircraft

10+ Mil

Luxury Automobile

100k

Smart Washing Machine

1k – 2k 65k - 130k 100k – 200kDefects

Lines of Code

Growth of Embedded Software is Creating an Explosion in System Complexity

* The Economists.May 16th, 2010. Tech.View: Cars and software bugs. www.economist.com

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The complexity is growing at an increasing pace

Growth of Embedded Software is Creating an Explosion in System Complexity

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Engineers must continue to

innovate and harness the latest

technologies to remain competitive

The quality challenge is growing, but timelines and budgets are not increasing proportionally

Diverging Challenges

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National Instruments – Our Mission in Automotive• Flexibility and Scalability

• Connect to 3rd party hardware and software tools

• Cost savings and Productivity Increase

• Use a common toolset in the entire development process

• Innovation Risk Mitigation• Powerful hardware and

software tools that take advantage of the latest technological innovations

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Rapid Control Prototyping

Hardware-in-the-LoopSimulation

Test Cell Measurement and Control

Automotive Infotainment Test

In-Vehicle Test and Logging

Automotive End-of-Line Test

Testing From Concept to Production

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New Embedded Software Testing Challenges

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Video and Display Test

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NI Automotive Testing Platform

Analog/ Digital I/O

Instrument Grade and RF I/O

Fault Insertion

Vision/Motion

Bus Interfaces

Real-TimeProcessor

Test Automation

Requirements TraceabilityAnalysis and Reporting Real-Time Testing SW

Modeling and Simulation

IVI testing with LabView and eggPlant

National Instruments RT PXI with LabView

XML-RPC

VNC

eggPlant Functional

System Under Test

eggPlant Functional

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