Testing Embedded Software

The book provides a practical and comprehensive overview of how to test embedded software.

• The book describes how embedded systems can be tested in a structured, controlled way.
• The first complete description of all necessary ingredients of a testing process.
• It includes classic as well as modern test design techniques.
• The described approach is useful in real-life situations of 'limited time and resources.

Technology:

More and more our society is pervaded by embedded software: cars, telecom, home entertainment devices are full of software. Embedded systems are becoming larger and more complex with an increasing amount of software, leading to a growing need for a structured testing method which helps to tackle the typical problems in embedded software testing.

Audience:

Managers or team leaders that are responsible for development and/or testing of embedded software and systems. Also, people who actually perform the primary software testing activities.

User level:

Intermediate.

Bart Broekman has been a software test practitioner since 1990. He participated in European embedded software research projects (ITEA) and is co-author of a book on test automation.

Edwin Notenboom has been a professional tester at Sogeti for six years. Together with Bart Broekman, he participated in a european ITEA project on embedded systems since February 1999.