2001/11/30 by Jon Hawkins, Haung V. Nguyen, Reginald B. Howard
Computer Science · #cs.OH #cs.SE
published as eConf C011127 (2001) TUAP037 · 6 pages, 8 figures, ICALEPCS 2001, Poster Session
arxiv created 2002/01/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Developing real-time automated test systems for embedded control systems has been a real problem. Some engineers and scientists have used customized software and hardware as a solution, which can be very expensive and time consuming to develop. We have discovered how to integrate a suite of commercially available off-the-shelf software tools and hardware to develop a scalable test platform that is capable of performing complete black-box testing for a dual-channel real-time Embedded-PLC-based control system (www.aps.anl.gov). We will discuss how the Vali/Test Pro testing methodology was implemented to structure testing for a personnel safety system with large quantities of requirements and test cases. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. W-31-109-Eng-38.