Testing Embedded Software

Professional software testers Broekman and Notenboom provide an overview of testing strategies used in a range of industries. They cover testing techniques as well as institutional organization and infrastructure issues. The emphasis is on the organizational level of the entire testing process. Topics include assembly of test approach, lifecycle issues and the process of software development and testing, testing techniques, and infrastructure. The book provides a practical and comprehensive overview of how to test embedded software. More and more our society is pervaded by embedded 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. 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 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. "Testing Embedded Software is an invaluable guidebook for test engineers, programmers, project managers, and team leaders in the embedded systems industry. It is the first book to provide a complete, in-depth overview of embedded systems testing."--Jacket