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Wind River Test Management 4.0 Manages Embedded Software Changes and Testing

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August 22, 2011

Wind River Test Management 4.0 Manages Embedded Software Changes and Testing

By Stefanie Mosca, TMCnet Managing Editor


Wind River (News - Alert), a provider of embedded multi-core and mobile software for network acceleration, has introduced the latest version of Wind River Test Management, a test automation system for monitoring and managing embedded device software testing.


The test management solution identifies high-risk segments in production code, enabling optimized testing that focuses solely on changes between builds. Wind River Test Management 4.0 provides an open framework for custom integration to any third-party test management, defect tracking, and requirement management application, as well as specific integration add-ons for IBM (News - Alert) Rational Quality Manager, IBM DOORS, IBM ClearQuest and HP Quality Center, according to the press release.

The technology found in the latest version of Wind River Test Management enables test coverage capable of analyzing production code to understand the changes made between builds as well as areas of the application that are impacted by changes and focuses the testing resources on those higher-risk segments. The Automatic Test Suite Generator module acts as a Decision Support System and drastically reduces risk and test cycles by creating an enhanced test suite according to customer defined rules and constraints, according to company officials.  

"To manage costs and product defect risks with increasingly aggressive time-to-market goals, device manufacturers are turning to new automation tools that help them monitor, manage and improve the testing process," said Ido Sarig, vice president of product marketing at Wind River. "The new features in Wind River Test Management help reduce the risk that defects in untested code will slip through unnoticed, with potentially grave consequences. They also provide bottom-line payback by enabling product companies to generate significant business value through more predictable development and reliable delivery of higher-quality products at a lower cost and with less risk."

Wind River Test Management 4.0 also includes a complete device reservation and scheduling system as part of the Virtual Lab Manager (VLM), test case versioning for test cases and scripted test components, as well as support for systems with short time frame "watchdog" or "heartbeat" utilities.

"Wind River Test Management has tremendously helped us improve the productivity of our firmware testing team, significantly reducing the overall development cycle time. And although we already had more than 20 tools as part of our test and development process, test plans and test results were still mostly paper based," said Gustavo Perez, general manager of CT engineering at GE Healthcare. "Wind River Test Management easily integrates with our existing solutions, such as HP Quality Center, to provide a complete automated regression testing suite running tests remotely on the target and collecting valuable metrics for tracking test progress and software quality. GE Healthcare operates on a 'zero defects' policy and Wind River helps ensure that this policy is met much faster than before."

Last week, Wind River also announced the latest version of its Wind River Linux 4, Update Pack 2. Wind River Linux 4 is a commercial embedded Linux runtime and development platform and is the first commercial embedded Linux to provide a fully integrated graphics software stack for the latest Intel and Texas Instruments' (News - Alert) processors.

The graphics stack is preloaded into the Wind River Linux platform and includes GTK, Qt, X.Org and the Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite. The Wind River Linux 4 graphic stack bundles the latest versions of popular graphics applications and is optimized for embedded development. Linux Standard Base (LSB) certification also assures compatibility with all LSB-compliant third-party applications.

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Stefanie Mosca is a Managing Editor for TMCnet, with a particular focus in wireless technologies as well as mobile and IP communications. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University and a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of New Haven. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page or follow her on Twitter (News - Alert) @stefaniemosca.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin








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