Testing early on and throughout the development cycle reduces the risks that affect time to market, cost and software quality. By exercising components (application components, devices and services) at the beginning of the development cycle in a runtime environment, and by continuing to test, as components are refined, developers can be assured of continuous Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliance up to development cycle completion. Spectra CX SCA Test can be used to test the software aspects that have been hand written, generated automatically using a Spectra CX Code Generator, or generated automatically using a 3rd party tool. Developers benefit from fully automated testing of all aspects of the SCA specified interfaces for each component. These slides will demonstrate the steps for unit testing the standard SCA interfaces of an SCA component with Spectra CX SCA Test. Topics will include: introduction to the Spectra CX unit testing framework; generation of standard unit tests; execution of unit tests on-host and on-target; and creating custom test cases.

1. March 3, 2011 Automating SCA Testing with Spectra CX

4. Validation versus Testing XML Descriptors Binaries Validation (Static) Test (Dynamic) Validation Report Test Cases Validation Rules Test Report SCA Model

6. Tests – Base Application Interfaces

7. Tests – Base Device Interfaces

10. How it Works SCA Test Feature Eclipse JUnit Framework (Java) SCA Test Target Loader (C++) Component Under Test Communicates with via CORBA Instantiates Generates JUnits Instantiates & Terminates Component Host Host or Target

12. SCA Test Workflow Generate Compile Execute Evaluate Prepare For each component to be tested Create test project(s)/model(s) Build the TargetLoader(s) Run the TargetLoader(s) Model the TargetLoader(s)

17. DEMONSTRATION