Test integration validates software execution behaviour

Model-based applications developed with the SCADE Suite can now be automatically tested with VectorCAST, ensuring that the embedded application is running as anticipated on the target. Additionally, with the support of VectorCAST’s Change-Based Testing capability, updates to the model can quickly and efficiently be verified without the need to revalidate unmodified code generated from the model.

These features significantly reduce the regression effort typically expended to generate and verify test cases during development testing and final verification on target. In this way, organisations are able to ensure their designs are fully tested to meet tight time-to-market windows, and demanding safety-critical standards.

The SCADE QTE is a module that allows developers of certifiable applications using the SCADE Suite to automate running test cases created during model-based verification activities on the host and the target, thus allowing a complete verification workflow from high-level requirements-based testing on the model down to integration testing on the target. Both the SCADE LifeCycle QTE tool and VectorCAST are qualified as Off-The-Shelf for DO-178C (DO-330 TQL-5 qualification).

Using the VectorCAST and SCADE QTE tool chain, conformity report generation, and source and model coverage measurements are automated, enabling significant time and cost savings over manual testing.