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News Release from: Hitex Development Tools | Subject: Tessy V2.4
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2006
Test tool integration cuts down on
manual work
The latest version of Tessy features much tighter integration with the CTE classification tree editor, a tool for test case specification according to the classification tree method.
Available now from Hitex, the latest version of Tessy (V2.4) features much tighter integration with the CTE classification tree editor, a tool for test case specification according to the classification tree method This long-awaited improved integration allows users to define values for test cases during the specification phase of the tests
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Test cases are defined on an abstract level using a classification/class scheme.
In the new version of CTE, values can be assigned to classes of the scheme.
In all test case specifications, in which a certain class is used, the assigned value is taken automatically to form the test case.
This avoids a lot of manual work, because the user does not need to edit each test case in order to specify values.
In the best case, all test cases can be defined completely in the CTE.
Then, when the test cases are exported from the CTE to Tessy, testing can start immediately.
After the tests are executed, the results (passed/failed) are transferred back to the CTE and are displayed associated with the test case specification.
Also new in Tessy V2.4 is the ability to specify a deviation value for test results.
This is particularly useful if floating point results are not exactly as expected, but not sufficiently wrong to warrant a test failure.
The deviation value can be specified absolutely or in relation to the expected value.
The new version of Tessy can also be integrated with Matlab, allowing graphical display of test results using the plotting functionality of Matlab.
For instance, users can plot the values of a variable over all test cases.
Enhanced management of compiler and target configurations allows users to specify settings both locally and globally for all Tessy users and all projects.
Now different user groups can use settings specific to their project without interfering with the setting of other user groups developing for different projects.
A new feature in Tessy V2.4 allows visualisation of the differences between two versions of tests for the same test object.
This also includes the differences in the results of the tests for two different versions of the same test object.
Tessy V2.4 supports a variety of new microcontrollers, including Freescale S12X, Fujitsu FFMC32, Microchip PIC18, Renesas H8S and Texas Instruments MSP430.
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