4 reasons to avoid writing test cases in Excel
I once heard someone say: “It’s impossible to develop a software tool that isn’t a competitor to Excel”. And that’s also true when it comes to the creation of test cases for testing embedded software. Over the past 20 years, Excel has been a very popular format and language to create, manage and store test […]
ISO 26262 Functional Safety Requirement Types
With the aim to provide technical coherence, reliability and safety, requirements engineering is the process for defining, documenting and managing requirements. In the 90s, the IEEE provided a general definition of requirements engineering with five phases: elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and management. Within each industry, requirements engineering has been adapted to the specific domain of […]
When and how to qualify tools according to ISO 26262
In the automotive industry, we can see a clear trend towards a growing complexity of embedded software combined with more and more software being used in safety critical applications. In this context the ISO 26262 standard plays an important role, providing recommendations for the development process of embedded systems. In addition to the process, ISO […]