Designing a parallel, distributed test system

Author

Starkloff, Eric

Author_Institution

Nat. Instrum., Austin, TX, USA

Volume

16

Issue

6

fYear

2001

fDate

6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The increasing use of parallel architectures and networking technologies has enabled test systems to break free from their traditional structure. Today´s systems run multiple parallel tasks, distribute testing among many computers, and publish live data through the Internet to achieve faster performance, better reliability, and increased connectivity with enterprise-wide systems. Specifically, software technologies and techniques will be examined for developing and running parallel, distributed automated tests and distributing test data between applications or across the Internet. If used correctly, the result of these techniques is a higher performance, more robust test system. In addition, we will examine technologies that make creating these parallel, distributed systems possible for not only the advanced test program developer, but also the novice user

Keywords

Internet; automatic test equipment; parallel architectures; Internet; automated tests; connectivity; multiple parallel tasks; parallel architectures; parallel distributed test; reliability; Application software; Automatic testing; Computer network reliability; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Internet; Parallel architectures; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.931129

Filename

931129