The software tester can be inundated with numerous testing strategies … how do you choose? First – determine what types of defects are likely to lie in your code. Then, choose a strategy which is likely to uncover those types of defects. Functional testing is performed on all projects, to at least a minimum level. … Read more

In testing Real-time systems, we typically must answer the question “Will all my tasks complete their work on time … in the worst case?”. In other words, we must assure that all the hard timing deadlines are met. Utilization is the first test. It simply determines what percent of the processor’s capability is used to get all the work done. … Read more

A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is often used in Embedded Systems to organize and simplify the scheduling and coordination of the “work” the processor performs. There are many types of RTOSes, varying dramatically in complexity, cost, features, etc. Although a complete list of the ways an RTOS can affect the Testing and Analysis of critical … Read more