Software testing, verification and validation encompass complementary activities aimed at ensuring that software behaves correctly, meets specifications and fulfils intended purposes. Testing ...

Functional verification can cost as much as design, but new capabilities are piling onto an already stressed verification methodology, leaving solutions fragmented and incomplete. In a perfect world, ...

While the disciplines of functional verification and test serve different purposes, their histories were once closely intertwined. Recent safety and security monitoring requirements coupled with ...

Nigeria has a real software-quality problem, and NITDA is right to confront it. But one design choice will decide whether ...

To test complex devices, test engineers must rely on the vector sets generated by verification engineers. Unfortunately, verification engineers—who work in a software simulation environment—often have ...

Automated software testing plays an important role in ensuring quality at every stage of software development. This article discusses how to get started using Python’s Robot Framework. Every code ...

California-based Joby Aviation, an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) developer, recently acquired an aerospace software engineering firm called Avionyx. This acquisition will support Joby ...

Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their supporting infrastructure are driving the system-on-chip (SoC) design challenge with demanding specifications, increasing software content, and ...