Automatic test software firm LDRA has integrated its tool suite with Lauterbach’s TRACE32 debugger.

"By providing software testing features such as traceability, verification, and code and quality review, LDRA assists users of the Trace32 debugger in fully automating the software testing process from code coverage to automating unit testing for the target," said LDRA.

The tool suite is compiler agnostic, so can be used in any tool chain whose target silicon is supported by the Lauterbach debugger.

Extensions for the Lauterbach debugger enable download of the code under test to the target and providing the mechanism for result capture back to the host. The interface is automatically managed using Lauterbach’s Practice commands created by the LDRA tool suite.

Scripts created using Practice download code to the target, control the execution of that code and facilitate the retrieval of unit-test results and code-coverage information. "The new scripts can be used together with existing scripts that, for example, initialise the target," said LDRA.

"The required parameters for the scripts to allow for system level coverage and both black- and white-box unit testing are automatically passed by the tool suite so that there is a high degree of automation requiring little or no engineer involvement during the actual testing."

More information: www.ldra.com