QW2001 Paper 2V2

Mr. Francois Charette
(TestQuest)

Testing Configurable Product Platforms

Key Points

Presentation Abstract

Electronic systems manufacturers are under tremendous pressure to rapidly deliver competitive products to market. Product development lifecycles have shrunk enormously and this has forced product engineering to be innovative. One recent approach borrowed from the manufacturing world has been the use of a platform-based approach to the hardware and the software. A fully integrated platform approach to product design allows manufacturers to create better, full-featured, lower-cost devices.

Such devices are completely configurable in that the graphical user interface and the behavior of the applications completely changes depending on a set of inputs provided. Such systems pose unique challenges to the product development especially from a verification and validation perspective.

About the Author

Mr. Francois Charette, BSEE from the Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada, has more than a decade of Test Automation and Quality Assurance experience. He has consulted on a variety of projects for fortune one hundred companies regarding test automation, quality assurance, and software development for process control, infra-red devices, set top devices, digital/analog video and electronics manufacturing.