testIDEA Overview

Main features:

• testIDEA is interactive editor for creating and running tests.
• All scopes of tests are supported - from testing single line of code, to function and system tests.
• It creates reports with detailed information about test execution and results.
• Integration with winIDEA is provided.
• Test cases and test vectors are executed on the real customer hardware without code instrumentation - other tools usually instrument the code.
• The major advantage of non-instrumented unit tests is the fast turn-around-times, because the tests can run without compilation, linking and download.
• No test drivers are needed and therefore no additional resources are used on the target system.
• Functions like tracing, profiling and code coverage analysis can be integrated into the test cases.
• Test cases can be created without knowing the winIDEA SDK.
• testIDEA stores the test cases in YAML format. YAML is human friendly data serialization standard. Human friendliness is its main advantage over XML.
• Test specification files can be easily edited with any text editor and later used either by scripts or testIDEA.
• Tests created with testIDEA can be easily used in scripts via winIDEA SDK.
• Integration with winIDEA SDK expands the operation area of winIDEA test technology from unit testing to integration and system testing.