LDRA has integrated its tool suite with NI LabVIEW Virtual Instruments. The LDRA-NI solution offers HIL simulation, a technique used to develop and test the complex real-time embedded systems commonly found in military and aerospace designs. The integration with the LDRA tool suite ensures that full software analysis is applied to the systems under test on the simulated target hardware. With the ability to test software systems up to DO-178 Level A, LDRA includes code standards enforcement, structural coverage analysis including modified condition/decision (MC/DC), object code coverage, unit testing, data and control coupling, and requirements traceability. The integration allows LDRA’s automated unit testing tool TBrun to generate inputs to and read outputs from LabVIEW Virtual Instruments, resulting in bidirectional control and data collection.
Test harnesses for customers using the integrated products can be run with the software fully simulated in LabVIEW or with hardware-in-the-loop using NI’s Reconfigurable Input/Output technology. Data is collected in one location, reducing expensive testing time by collecting test results for certification evidence in a single location. Also, on-target testing can be minimized because the same software tests can be run on both the simulated and actual target hardware using the same test cases. With the integration of LabVIEW Virtual Instruments into the LDRA software test harness, standard-specific tests can be run. Although this rigor is commonly found in DO-178 applications, analogous medical and industrial qualification environments also demand extensive testing. LDRA’s standard-specific templates that streamline certification processes ensure that this level of testing competency can be extended and tailored to many industrial standards, such as ISO 26262, IEC 62304 and IEC 61508.
