Abstract: A method for semi-automated development data management for control devices includes saving a development data model in a central data store comprising a plurality of mutually related configuration data units, wherein the configuration data units each store control commands and/or configuration parameters. The method further includes providing a ruleset and identifying an initial configuration data unit, wherein it is possible, using the ruleset, to identify further configuration data units automatically on a basis of a relationship thereof with the initial configuration data unit. In addition, the method includes applying the provided ruleset to the development data model in order to identify a subset of configuration data units within the development data model and saving the identified subset.

Abstract: A method for semi-automated development data management for control devices includes saving a development data model in a central data store comprising a plurality of mutually related configuration data units, wherein the configuration data units each store control commands and/or configuration parameters. The method further includes providing a ruleset and identifying an initial configuration data unit, wherein it is possible, using the ruleset, to identify further configuration data units automatically on a basis of a relationship thereof with the initial configuration data unit. In addition, the method includes applying the provided ruleset to the development data model in order to identify a subset of configuration data units within the development data model and saving the identified subset.

Abstract: A transfer of payload data from a buffer to a destination data store is provided so that the data can be processed there by a computer-assisted development environment. To this end, a data management environment provides the buffer and the destination data store. A data record having the payload data and semantic data that are associated with the payload data is provided in the buffer, and a data object with processing-specific object semantics is provided in the destination data store. The data object is instantiated with the payload data by means of the semantic data in that the payload data are placed in the data object as a function of the object semantics of the data object in such a manner that the development environment can process the payload data on the basis of the object semantics.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for data management of product variants in control unit development is provided. Consistent data management is ensured by initially specification of product features in a variant model, specification of components in at least one domain, and definition of feature/component dependencies by associating components with at least one product feature, and subsequently specification of at least one product variant of interest by selecting product features, specification of at least one domain of interest, automated identification of the components pertaining to the product variant of interest through automated evaluation of the feature/component dependencies, and automated output of the identified components.

Abstract: A method is presented and described for testing of at least one electronic control system, in which the control system is connected via a data channel to a test device, at least one environmental model is calculated on the test device and the environmental model interacts with the control system by output of environment model data via the test device to the control system and by receiving control system data from the control system via the data channel. The method according to the invention executes on the test device at least one test model to influence the environment model and/or to calculate the environment model and/or the electronic control system, in which the test model or the test models is or are executed functionally independently of the environment model and, during test operation, synchronously with the environment model.

Abstract: A method is presented and described for testing of at least one electronic control system (1), in which the control system (1) is connected via a data channel (2) to a test device (3), at least one environment model (4) is calculated on a test device (3) and the environment model (4) interacts with the control system (1) by output of environment model data via test device (3) to control system (1) and by receiving control system data from control system (1) via data channel (2). The method according to the invention prevents the drawbacks known in the prior art by executing on test device (3) at least one test model (5) to influence the environment model (4) and/or to calculate the environment model (4) and/or the electronic control system (1), in which the test model (5) or the test models (5a, 5b) is or are executed functionally independently of the environment model (4) and, during test operation, synchronously with the environment model (4).

Abstract: A method and a device for the dynamic treatment of objects in a test design are described and presented. According to this method, the test design comprises at least two bidirectionally exchanging systems and at least one additional system to be tested. Objects of a first type belong to an environment model, which is executed on a first system, and these objects can be processed by a test model. The inventive method prevents the drawbacks known from the prior art, in that objects of a second type that are similar or identical to the objects of the first type are generated; and the objects of a first and a second type are made available to at least one of the systems by means of a management device.

Abstract: The invention involves a process and system for testing a technical system, such as an electronic control devices. The system includes a data processing system for executing a test sequence stored in memory. The data processing system communicates with the technical system via an interface. Data is transmitted by the executed test sequence to the technical system and/or read by the technical system. The test sequence for executing a test may be graphically displayed. The test sequence may be composed of executable program blocks in a graphical hierarchic arrangement, wherein a simultaneous execution of program blocks of the same hierarchal level can be determined by graphically arranging the program blocks adjacent to one another, and by executing program blocks of a different hierarchic level subsequently one after the other, by graphically arranging the latter among each other in the display.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and system for testing a technical system, in particular an electronic control device, comprising at least one data processing system for executing a test sequence stored as a program in a memory; and a display device, whereby the data processing system is linked with the technical system via at least one interface, and data are transmitted by means of the executed test sequence to the technical system and/or read by the latter, and whereby the test sequence for executing a test is graphically displayed on the display device; whereby the test sequence is composed of executable program blocks; and whereby by means of a graphical hierarchic arrangement of program blocks, a simultaneous execution of program blocks of the same hierarchical level can be determined by graphically arranging the program blocks one next to the other, and by executing program blocks of a different hierarchic level subsequently the one after the other, by graphically arranging the latter among each oth