Computer Aided Re-Engineering (CARE) for Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)

Author

Tyler, David F. ; Whiseant, Steve

Author_Institution

Access Res. Corp., Reston, VA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

20-22 Sep 1994

Firstpage

623

Lastpage

635

Abstract

This paper addresses a current and future requirement to maintain out moded and obsolete Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) and their associated Test Program Set (TPS) software. There are two major issues with regard to this requirement; first, the ATE hardware is no longer supportable and must be replaced with newer computers and instrumentation. Second, the TPS software must be migrated to the new ATE hardware. This paper presents currently available Computer Aided Re-Engineering (CARE) techniques that will greatly assist the user with this migration

Keywords

automatic test equipment; automatic test software; data analysis; economics; optimisation; software engineering; ATE; CARE; automatic test equipment; computer aided re-engineering; external interface analysis; metric analysis; optimisation; test program set software; Automatic test equipment; Automatic testing; Computer aided software engineering; Costs; Documentation; Hardware; Instruments; Quality management; Software maintenance; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '94. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. 'Cost Effective Support Into the Next Century', Conference Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1910-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1994.381559

Filename

381559