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Standardized Testing Technology for Higher Quality Automotive Software

04-30-2008 10:13 AM CET | IT, New Media & Software

Press release from: Fraunhofer FOKUS

TEMEA research project ensures quality of electronic components in the automobile industry

Under the leadership of Fraunhofer FOKUS and with financial support from the Investitions­bank Berlin, the TEMEA project – Test Specification Technology and Methodology for Embedded Real Time Systems in the Automobile – has now taken up its work. The main aims of the TEMEA project are to meet current and
future demands for Quality Assurance in the automobile industry through the development and provision of standardizable testing technologies, and also to substantially lower production costs. Alongside the Fraunhofer Institutes FOKUS and FIRST, the other project partners include IT Power Consultants, Testing Technologies IST GmbH, Fourth Project Consulting and the University of Göttingen. The project will run for three years; first results are expected in fall 2008.

“In spite of intensive efforts on the part of automobile manufacturers and their suppliers, no solutions have yet been found for dealing with problems arising from the testing and Quality Control of increasingly complex, increasingly networked systems,” says Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker, TEMEA project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, talking about the project background. “For instance, test specifications for test systems and test solutions – many of which are proprietary – cannot be reused – neither on the interface between automobile producer and supplier nor on a cross-project basis within the company. This leads to an unnecessarily high workload in terms of test specification and implementation, inhibits communication between producer and supplier and prevents reuse of existing test artifacts. The bottom line is that the quality of the whole vehicle suffers.”

The approach adopted by the TEMEA project is specially tailored to meet requirements-driven systematic testing of electronic components and
their integration in the automobile. Based on the standardized testing technology TTCN-3, the TEMEA project seeks to develop a uniform test specification technology consisting of text and graphic elements for test specification, a flexibly adaptable test implementation environment, and a configured testing methodology that will satisfy the needs of suppliers and major manufacturers alike. An approach of this kind – which promises to raise the efficiency of Quality Assurance processes for software-intensive systems through standardizable technology and thus to lower their production costs - is something completely new for the automobile industry. A further special feature of the project is that it also covers current automotive industry standards such as AUTOSAR. The main project areas are
• integrated testing of discreet and continuous behavior,
• cross-platform exchange of test definitions (MiL/SiL/HiL),
• support across the whole testing and integration cycle,
• analysis of real-time and reliability requirements,
• testing of AUTOSAR architectural components, and analysis of
test quality.

Information
www.temea.org

Contact Dr. Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS
Tel +49 (0)30 3463 7241, ina.schieferdecker@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Dr. Gudrun Quandel (Press)
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin, Germany
T +49 (0)30 3463 7212
T +49 (0)171 1995334
gudrun.quandel@fokus.fraunhofer.de

The Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
has a 20 year record in the development of solutions for partners from industry, research and public administration. Areas covered include integrating networks and technologies; adaptation and management of Middleware; building and administering services and applications; measurement and testing of distributed telecommunications systems and; methods for automation and optimisation of software and system development processes.

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