Razorcat TESSY – Test System Unit Testing Tool

TESSY automates the whole unit test cycle including regression testing for your embedded software in C/C++ on different target systems. As an easy-to-install and easy to operate testing tool TESSY guides you through the unit test workflow from the project setup through the test design and execution to the result analysis and reporting. TESSY takes additionally care of the complete test organization as well as the test management, including requirements, coverage measurement, and traceability.

The following figure describes TESSY’s core feature.

Design test cases using the Classification Tree Method (CTM) and apply the CTM within the graphical user interface of the Classification Tree Editor (CTE). Since the CTE is integrated in TESSY it is easy to set the values needed in the TESSY test process (e.g. input/output) directly within the CTE.

With the help of the Test Data Editor (TDE) the editing of test data is simplified. Additionally the test data are visualized within plots.

The Usercode editor is an integral part of the TDE perspective and provides flexible editing and outline views together with the tabular test data viewer, e.g. you have the possibility to read/write registers or add individual stub code.

With the fourth generation of TESSY it is now an easy task to test code variants. Hierarchical variant trees are created by derived modules. This allows an automatic testing of base and derived variants with selected test cases in a short period of time. For the tests, to indicate the relationship to a specific code variant, modules can be assigned to variants. Test cases within the derived variant modules can be added, deleted and individual test data values can be applied. Changes on the base variant can easily be synchronized down to the derived variant modules. The software variant management of TESSY V4.0 enables a product-specific code of a product series with different variations to be analyzed and tested individually in an efficient way.

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Colored values within the TDE which correspond to the state of the test results, the visualization of test results within plots, and the Coverage Viewer (CV) with the function flow and details about the coverage help to analyze the test results.

To determine what proportion of your project’s code is actually being tested by unit tests or integration tests, you can use the code coverage feature of TESSY. There are different kinds of coverage measurements which are provided in TESSY:

• Statement Coverage (C0)
• Branch Coverage (C1)
• Decision Coverage (DC)
• Modified Condition / Decision Coverage (MC/DC)
• Multiple Condition Coverage (MCC)
• Entry Point Coverage (EPC)
• Function Coverage (FC)
• Call Pair Coverage (CPC)

Code coverage can optionally be enabled when running tests, which causes TESSY to automatically instrument the source code for the selected coverage measurements. The Coverage Viewer shows the percentage of the code that was run in the test. In addition, the flow chart view and the colored source code view shows you graphically which code has been tested. To effectively prevent bugs, the tests should achieve the highest possible test coverage of the project code.

An important feature in TESSY is the Call Pair Coverage (CPC) measurement, which checks whether all call points of functions or methods within the test object have been executed at least once. This meets the requirements of ISO 26262 for safety-relevant software development as an alternative code coverage procedure for integration tests instead of function coverage (FC) measurement.

Define scenarios in the Scenario Editor (SCE) and test components. All variables of the component interface may be set and checked at arbitrary points in time within the scenario.

TESSY offers different types of automatically created and well-designed test reports in PDF. Report your requirements, the V&&V matrix, the test planning coverage (=planned requirement coverage), the test execution coverage, and the test overview and test details.

• One installation/one tool to manage the test process
• Efforts to log and manage data as well as to create reports and keep everything up to date are reduced to a minimum.
• By reducing manual tasks to a minimum, the verification process becomes scalable, transparent and less susceptible to errors.
• TESSY’s reporting features allow to easily create commonly accepted reports for authorities
• The user friendly presentation of the data helps you to focus your attention on your tests and to explore the test workflow. Thus no time will be wasted for searching information

Supported compiler / debugger

Revised graphical user interface (GUI)

The new TESSY GUI provides easy access to all functionalities within multiple perspectives and views on the test data. All TESSY tools are integrated as individual perspectives within one application.

Application Programming Interface (API) and command line interface

An API for the project database (PDB) and the test database (TDB) is available, enabling the user to write scripts (e.g. using a DOS shell), to modify this information, or to add new modules with all necessary settings (e.g. source files, include paths, defines) into the project database. A command line executable provides all commands of the API for usage within DOS batch files.