Process and system for the description and execution of automated tests

US7092835B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Erkan Bostanci · Paderborn, DE
• Klaus Lamberg · Altenbeken, DE
• Rainer Rasche · Paderborn, DE
• Jobst Richert · Lippstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 20, 2004
• Grant date: Aug 15, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99933
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention involves a process and system for testing a technical system, such as an electronic control devices. The system includes a data processing system for executing a test sequence stored in memory. The data processing system communicates with the technical system via an interface. Data is transmitted by the executed test sequence to the technical system and/or read by the technical system. The test sequence for executing a test may be graphically displayed. The test sequence may be composed of executable program blocks in a graphical hierarchic arrangement, wherein a simultaneous execution of program blocks of the same hierarchal level can be determined by graphically arranging the program blocks adjacent to one another, and by executing program blocks of a different hierarchic level subsequently one after the other, by graphically arranging the latter among each other in the display.