The VectorCAST test automation platform has been integrated with CodePeer 3.0 - AdaCore’s advanced static code analysis tool for Ada, including version 2012.  Vector Software’s VectorCAST and CodePeer now provide Development and QA teams with the ability to focus test efforts in areas most susceptible to errors.

The VectorCAST Test Automation Platform from Vector Software is available in the Wind River Marketplace. It offers users an app store experience where they can research and evaluate best of breed add-on software from trusted partners. Vector Software, a 15-year partner of Wind River, supports VxWorks 5.x, 6.x, 7 and VxWorks 653 1.8, 2.x, and 3.0.

A test automation platform with an IDE has been released by Vector Software. The VectorCAST test automation platform features the Code Composer Studio (CCS) IDE v6 from Texas Instruments, which supports the company’s wireless connectivity, MPU and processors portfolio.

Through an advanced integration with the Lauterbach TRACE32 product, Vector Software’s VectorCast now enables development, test, and certification teams, to set and continuously collect, practically unlimited volumes of test data from RAM constrained embedded systems. It benefits users in aerospace, defence, automotive, medical devices, industrial control, and commercial environments where software quality and industry compliance are critic...

Vector Software have announced the availability of VectorCAST/CBA, which allows users in regulated industries to augment measured coverage with manual analysis to achieve the mandated 100% code coverage. VectorCAST/CBA is available as an add-on for all VectorCAST products and provides an intuitive editor, which allows users to provide analysis for statements, branch outcomes, or MC/DC pairs depending on the coverage level.

Vector Software released of VectorCAST 6.3 at Embedded World in Nuremberg an Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-machine (M2M)-ready embedded test suite. This version provides a new micro harness architecture designed for the special needs of IoT / M2M applications required because of the smaller microprocessors and limited resources that are available to these applications.

Vector Software will release an Internet of Things (IoT) - ready test solution, VectorCAST 6.3, at Embedded World 2015. The new VectorCAST tool suite is engineered to leverage Vector Software’s deep domain expertise in embedded safety-critical applications for use in less regulated markets, like Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M).

Vector Software has integrated VectorCAST and Polyspace static analysis products from MathWorks. The collaboration enables developers to combine dynamic testing and static analysis in a single, seamless environment which helps to ensure applications function as intended. Polyspace products can be launched from the VectorCAST graphical user interface (GUI), enabling static analysis of Ada, C or C++ files. By using the two tools in tandem, develope...

Vector Software has announced an integration with Jama that helps engineering and QA professionals boost software quality by using the VectorCAST test tool and Jama Test Management to link test cases to requirements, run test plans, and log related defects to ensure complete test coverage.Jama Software’s test management solution is tightly integrated with its requirements management and collaboration capabilities for seamless workflows betw...

Vector Software is offering an integration between the VectorCAST test solution and the Esterel SCADE Suite LifeCycle Qualified Testing Environment (QTE). Engineers using the tool chain can integrate model-based application development with the SCADE Suite, and automatically generate the target test environment and supporting test cases using VectorCAST — providing an on-target testing capability which validates that the software execution ...

A tool offering seamless integration with the Wind River VxWorks 7 RTOS has been released by Vector Software. VectorCAST tools, combined with the VxWorks 7 RTOS allows software tests to be built and run in the same environment that the final application will be deployed.

Vector Software has opened registration for the Using VectorCAST to Test like Google webinar. This webinar will help attendees understand how preventing bugs decreases costs and eases schedule concerns, and offers insights into the process used by Google to identify bugs earlier in the product development lifecycle.

Vector Software says that its VectorCAST software test environment now offers an integration with the PTC Integrity application lifecycle management (ALM) platform. As a result, software developers can easily integrate the VectorCAST test results of their embedded software applications into one seamless environment that manages the end-to-end processes of development.

Vector Software says that the VectorCAST software test solution now supports the MISRA C: 2012 (MISRA C3) standard. The new benchmark offers improvements to earlier versions, and extends support for the MISRA C: 2012 C99 version of the C language (ISO/IEC 9899:1999). The VectorCAST software test environment is widely deployed in safety-critical applications that utilise the MISRA C standard, and the regulation is the most widely used set of codin...

Vector Software has announced the release of a new white paper that enables organizations to easily measure the impact that poor software quality has on their bottom line. Titled “Quantifying The Cost of Fixing vs Preventing Bugs”, the paper enables companies to obtain concrete figures about how much buggy code costs their organization, and shows how an automated, repeatable software testing process helps companies improve software qu...

Vector Software have announced that the company has partnered with SYSGO AG to offer the VectorCAST software test tool in an integration with the latest version of microkernel based real-time operating system (RTOS) PikeOS 3.4. Certified to the highest safety and security standards, this RTOS is used in safety-critical applications such as aircraft, rail, medical instruments, automotive and industrial automation to meet DO-178 B, ISO 26262 and IE...

Vector Software has developed a reduced footprint version of VectorCAST C/C++ which supports testing on target processors with limited memory. The optimised VectorCAST test harness can now fit on a variety of 8-bit microprocessors with less than 1k of RAM. The optimisations shrink program and static memory size, as well as dynamic memory and stack usage.

Vector Software’s Global Services Group is now offering gap analysis audit services to address the problem of “gaps” that appear between the current development process, and what organisations require to optimally develop software. In as little as two weeks, embedded software engineers apply their deep domain expertise and uncover gaps in the software development process — enabling organisations to accelerate certification...

Vector Software has introduced a new testing tool designed to save engineers time and money by identifying and testing only the source code that has changed. It means engineers will not have to undertake iterative tests across large applications which in some cases can take weeks.

Vance Hilderman has been appointed the the role of Director of Global Services by Vector Software. Responsible for building service offerings that go beyond consulting, Hilderman and the Global Services team will help VectorCAST customers implement best practices for Software Development and Test, aiming to improve software quality and make Software Certification as efficient as possible.