Current vehicle design trends include increasing electronic system functionality through the incorporation of embedded computer systems. As the emphasis on vehicle safety and efficiency increases, demand for increased automation to support these areas will also increase with corresponding increases in system and software complexity.
Software development, integration, test, and maintenance then become major cost elements of such systems. To manage the complexity and cost of such systems requires a paradigm shift in our approach to debugging, integrating, and testing complex, embedded computer systems.
This paper addresses a new approach to software debugging, integration, and testing which supports complex, embedded systems.