Abstract: A method is described and represented for testing a control apparatus with a test device, where the control apparatus has at least one state variable and at least one actual functionality that contains a time dependency, and the control apparatus and the test device are connected to each other via a signal interface. The problem of the present invention is to prevent—at least partially—the disadvantages known from the state of the art, and, particularly, to provide a method for testing a control apparatus, which allows as simple and flexible an acquisition of the target functionality of a control apparatus is possible, and which takes into account the time dependency of the target functionality as comprehensively as possible during the test case generation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of creating a requirement description for an embedded system, including but not only a motor vehicle electronic control unit, in which a vocabulary of natural-language, selectable text segments is stored in a data processing system, said text segments being combinable with one another to form at least one natural-language sentence, possibly but not necessarily in the English language, to form a machine-readable requirement description, and that each text segment is linked to a set of further text segments that can be combined with it, whereby for a text segment that is selected, the data processing system automatically represents the further combinable text segments in selectable form on a display unit. The invention further relates to a computer program product stored on a data medium that, when executed on a data processing system executes a method according to one of the previous claims.

Abstract: A method is described and represented for testing a control apparatus with a test device, where the control apparatus has at least one state variable and at least one actual functionality that contains a time dependency, and the control apparatus and the test device are connected to each other via a signal interface. The problem of the present invention is to prevent—at least partially—the disadvantages known from the state of the art, and, particularly, to provide a method for testing a control apparatus, which allows as simple and flexible an acquisition of the target functionality of a control apparatus is possible, and which takes into account the time dependency of the target functionality as comprehensively as possible during the test case generation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of creating a requirement description for an embedded system, including but not only a motor vehicle electronic control unit, in which a vocabulary of natural-language, selectable text segments is stored in a data processing system, said text segments being combinable with one another to form at least one natural-language sentence, possibly but not necessarily in the English language, to form a machine-readable requirement description and that each text segment is linked to a set of further text segments that can be combined with it, whereby for a text segment that is selected, the data processing system automatically represents the further combinable text segments in selectable form on a display unit. The invention further relates to a computer program product that is stored on a data medium and that, when executed on a data processing system, executes a method according to one of the previous claims.

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