AUTOMATED HARDWARE TESTING
USING PYTHON
Name
: YUVARAJA RAVI
Reg No : 13PEES1005
course
: M.TECH EMBEDDED
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NAME
YUVARAJA.R
REGISTER NUMBER
: 13PEES1005
LANGUAGE
: EMBEDDED C & PYTHON
PROJECT INCHARGE
K.Bhaskar B.Tech., M.E.(Ph.D)
ABSTRACT
Design a Embedded Prototype test hardware
interact with Python software shows
presence of defects in UUT. Python test
script can download the test cases to the
target system one by one, receive test
output, compare with specifications then
verify it, and generate log files. Log files
inside test steps results are stored as
PASS/FAIL.
Its a cost effective test system for SS
Electronic hardware manufacturers
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TESTING
Testing
is an organized process to
verify the behavior, performance,
and reliability of a device
It ensures a device or system to
be as defect-free as possible
Testing is a manufacturing step
to ensure that the manufactured
device is defect free
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HARDWARE TESTING
A
common test platform (CTP), also called an
open test standard (OTS), is a set of specifications
defining test methods for diverse components of
computer and electronic systems to be marketed
as complete products. The intent of a CTP is to
ensure consistency in hardware and software test
procedures from the conceptual and design
phases through manufacture and distribution.
Computers, computer peripherals and electronic
systems often contain complex devices, circuits,
programs and interfaces. These must all work
together in a variety of applications and
conditions. A CTP can be part of an overall quality
assurance program. A common standard can
reduce the cost of test equipment, optimize the
use of available test equipment, increase
EXISTING SYSTEM
Testing
is carried out manually by test
engineers. Consuming a lot of time and
effort huge for spending the time for testing.
NI Lab View designing a ATE .But
measurements are taken by reputed
instruments or NI PXI only
PXI HW and its software is huge amount.
Certified engineer only able to access the
software
Add-on software needed for Test case and
Report generation .
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PROPOSED SYSTEM
To overcome the existing problem, we construct
Embedded hardware test module to measure the
Resistance test applied to signal traces (short/open)
Voltage /current measure with help of analog pins.
IO pins used to trigger the on/off or control the hw.
Protocols testing are done by the test hardware.
Tested data packets serially communicated to the
Python scritps
Python scripts collect the complied data's then
compare with test case input and generate the test
reports..
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PROJECT ENTIRE SYSTEM
PYTHON
TEST
GUI
DEVICE
UNDER
TEST
SERIAL INTERFACE
EMBEDDED TEST HW
DESIGN
Atmega
8-bit AVR controller used for Embedded
Test Hardware system.
Necessity to test the every protocols chips,
Analog and Digital IC.
Current, Voltage and Resistance measurements
using 10bit ADC
I2C >> | TEMP | EEPROM | SENSORS | DEVICES |
UART >> RS232 <<
RS485 >> 75176-IC <<
RS422 >> 75176-IC <<
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HW DESIGN VOLTAGE ,CURRENT &
RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT
Voltage
measured by using AVR
Controller 10bit ADC
Current measurement taken by
ACS712 Current sensor IC.
Constant current probing to the
voltage net through voltage
divider circuit. Impedance
measured by the ADC.
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HW DESIGN PROTOCOLS TESTING-I2C
I2C(Inter-Integrated
Circuit, pronounced "I
squared C") is also a synchronous
protocol.I2C uses only 2 wires, one for the
clock (SCL) and one for the data (SDA). That
means that master and slave send data over
the same wire, again controlled by the
master.
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HW DESIGN PROTOCOLS
TESTING-UART / SERIAL
Serial
communicationis the process of
sending data one bit one by one sequentially,
over a communicationchannel.
UART communication of Full duplex TX and RX
communication through the COM devices.
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HW DESIGN PROTOCOLS
TESTING RS485
RS-485
allows multiple devices (up to
32) to communicate at half-duplex on a
single pair of wires, plus a ground wire
(more on that later), at distances up to
1200 meters (4000 feet)
RS485 Differential communication
through A <-> B Signal lines.
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HW DESIGN PROTOCOLS
TESTING RS422
Serial, balanced and differential are the keywords for
the RS422 interface standard. Serial means, that the
information is sent bit by bit on a single transmission
line, just like with RS232. Balanced differential is what
makes RS422 different from RS232
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SW Design - PYTHON
Python
is a clear and powerful objectoriented programming language,
comparable to Perl, Tcl and Java.
Its a FOSS Programming language.
Runs on many different computers
and operating systems: Windows,
MacOS, many brands of Unix, OS/2
Python Code can be grouped into
modules and packages
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SOFTWARE DESIGN - PYTHON
An
open source software used to
Automate the Hardware Testing
UNITTEST
modulesupports test
automation, sharing of setup and
shutdown code for tests, aggregation
of tests into collections, and
independence of the tests from the
reporting framework.
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UNIT TEST MODULE CONCEPTS
Test Fixture : It represents the preparation needed to
perform one or more tests, and any associate cleanup
actions. This may involve, for example, creating
temporary or proxy databases, directories, or starting a
server process.
Test Case: is the smallest unit of testing. It checks for a
specific response to a particular set of inputs.Unit test
provides a base class,Test Case which may be used to
create new test cases.
Test Suite: Test suiteis a collection of test cases, test
suites, or both. It is used to aggregate tests that should
be executed together.
Test Plan: Test planis a document detailing the
objectives, target market, internal beta team, and
AUTOMATED
HARDWARE TESTING
processes for a specific betatestfor
a software
or
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SW Development Flow
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Requirements & Test Case
Relationship
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UUT Code Sample
Def ScaledInput(data):
rc = NO_ERR
Function code getting one input argument
scaled_data = data
if data >= DATA_MIN and data <= DATA_MAX:
scaled_data = (data * data_scale) + data_offset
if scaled_data > SCALE_MAX:
scaled_data = SCALE_MAX
rc = ERR_MAXSCALE
elif scaled_data < SCALE_MIN:
scaled_data = SCALE_MIN
rc = ERR_MINSCALE
else:
rc = ERR_OVER
return (rc, scaled_data)
Function Returning two o/p values
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Function with argument code
table
A unit test is constructed such that all
possible inputs are used to force the
execution to traverse all possible paths.
In the case of ScaledInput(), we can see
that there are three obvious input test
cases. Too low,
Too high,
Within range.
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Test Case Function Flow
chart
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Test Step Flow Chart
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PYTHON SCRIPT
TEST CASE
Each automatic test case
contains assigned Python
script that is executed by
Executor application. Figure
presents general flow chart
for writing automatic scripts for
functional testing.
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PYTHON TEST RESULT
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ADVANTAGES
Boards,
components and interface cable
separately tested in modes of test case.
Manual testing has been reduced
Locating the Hardware(components)
and software bugs using test reports.
Low Cost (Pursuing softwares are Open
source)
Reduced human efforts
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DISADVANTAGES
Embedded
controllers are single
task at a instant. So measuring
data goes to the pc with delay.
Output data packets compared
with test case help of Python
Script. So report generating time
taken more.
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CONCLUSION
Automatic
hardware testing using Python is
a ATE technique to increase throughput
without a corresponding increase in cost, by
performing tests on protocols are handling
and test without error. It has been shown
quantitatively to reduce test cost more
effectively than low-cost ATE. Because it
reduces all test cost contributors, and not
only capital cost of ATE.
In this paper, we described the AHT using
python strategy adopted for hardware
testing and protocols testing without
measuring instruments .
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FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
In
this project in future we can
add a FPGA or CPLD used to get
the data packets at instant of
time without delay.
Parallel
Testing method
introduces to test the multiple
boards at same instant time.
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BASE PAPERS
[1] Jambunatha, K .,Design and implement Automated Procedure to
upgrade remote network devices using Python, Advance Computing
Conference (IACC), 2015 IEEE International, Bangalore, June 2015.
[2] Karmore, S.P.; Mabajan, A.R., Universal methodology for
embedded system testing., Computer Science & Education (ICCSE),
2013 8th International Conference on Year: 2013,IEEE Conference
Publications, 26-28 April 2013
[3] Kovacevic, M.; Kovacevic, B.; Pekovic, V.; Stefanovic, D.,
Framework for automatic testing of Set-top boxes.,
Telecommunications Forum Telfor (TELFOR), 22ndYear: 2014
[4] Kim H. Pries, Jon M. Quigley-Testing Complex and Embedded
Systems-CRC Press (2010)
[5] Python Programming Language, URL http://python.org/.
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THANK YOU
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