Towards a unified approach to the testability of co-designed systems

Abstract

The paper deals with the testability analysis of dataflow co designed systems. As a data flow specification is independent from the hardware/software implementation choice, a uniform approach may be used to evaluate the specification with respect to testability. The difficulty of generating test sets, and of detecting and diagnosing faults is discussed and estimated. We chose to use an existing hardware testability model which is suitable for data flow software specification; this model, based on information transfers, is called the Information Transfer Graph. A real case study supplied by Aerospatiale illustrates the proposed testability estimates.